We stood to the northward till seven in the evening, then saw a rippling; and, the water being discoloured, we sounded, and had but twenty-two fathom. I went about and stood to the westward till two next morning then tacked again, and had these several soundings: at eight in the evening, twenty-two; at ten, twenty-five; at eleven, twenty-seven; at twelve, twenty-eight fathom; at two in the morning, twenty-six; at four, twenty-four; at six, twenty-three; at eight, twenty-eight; at twelve, twenty-two.英文原著 · 《Early Australian Voyages》
He was already rapidly calculating for himself. Seven cases at eleven dollars and seventy-five cents would be worth just eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; and if it went at half--if it went at half--
"Twelve dollars," commented one bidder. "Fifteen," bid another. "Twenty," called a third. "Twenty-five," a fourth. Then it came to dollar raises, for Castile soap was not such a vital commodity. "Twenty-six." "Twenty-seven." "Twenty-eight." "Twenty-nine." There was a pause. "Thirty," observed young Cowperwood, decisively.英文原著 · 《The Financier》
I am past three-and-twenty--shall be four-and-twenty the 5th of next July.'
'Three-and-twenty! Bless me! I thought you were not twenty!' cried Lady Anne. 'Four-and-twenty next July!--impossible!' cried Lady Catharine. 'Very possible,' said Miss Broadhurst, quite unconcerned. 'Now, Lord Colambre, would you believe it? Can you believe it?' asked Lady Catharine. 'Yes, he can,' said Miss Broadhurst.英文原著 · 《The Absentee》
STRIKING THE BALANCE
The next night they went to see Warren at the Museum. That probably helped them. After the play they met by appointment at the Carters'. Felix read his
REPORT. NUMBER.--There are twenty-one reasons for congratulation, twenty-four for regret. But of the twenty-four, four are the same; namely, the cursed political prospect of the country. Counting that as one only, there are twenty-one on each side. EVIL.--The twenty-one evils may be classified thus: political, 1; social, 12; physical, 5; terrors, 3.英文原著 · 《The Brick Moon》
There was no darkness in such high latitudes at that time of the year, and he could run the river every hour of the twenty-four. This would mean, daily, a hundred and twenty miles. Strike out the twenty for accidents, and there remained a hundred miles a day. In twenty days he would reach Bering Sea. And this would involve no expenditure of energy; the river did the work. He could lie down in the bottom of the boat and husband his strength. For two days he ate nothing. Then, drifting into the Yukon Flats, he went ashore on the low-lying islands and gathered the eggs of wild geese and ducks.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》
"I sure staked a full thousan' feet," he proclaimed. "Number twenty-seven and number twenty-eight, though I'd only got the upper stake of twenty-seven, when I met the first geezer of the bunch behind. He just straight declared I wasn't goin' to stake twenty- eight. An' I told him .英文原著 · 《Smoke Bellew》
If you work with twentysomethings, you love a twentysomething, If you work with twentysomethings, you love a twentysomething,演讲 · 《Why 30 is not the new 20 ~ Meg Jay》
I want to change what twentysomethings are doing and thinking. I want to change what twentysomethings are doing and thinking.演讲 · 《Why 30 is not the new 20 ~ Meg Jay》