Seventeen

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one.

(adj.) being one more than sixteen .

整理:玛米

• The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• On a fine Sunday evening, in the month of August, John Edmunds set foot in the village he had left with shame and disgrace seventeen years before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The child of seven years lives yet in the girl of seventeen, said she. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy--a boy of not more than seventeen at the most. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It warn't much--execution for nine pound nothin', multiplied by five for costs; but hows'ever here he stopped for seventeen year. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She is eighteen, or at least seventeen--old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Why, not a soul has been here during your absence, except a very interesting young woman, who did not appear to be more than seventeen years of age. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• There she broke down, poor thing, and gave the other seventeen to the four winds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Seventeen or eighteen centuries ago this Coliseum was the theatre of Rome, and Rome was mistress of the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Seventeen people were made defendants to that simple suit! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He then found out that there were not defendants enough--remember, there were only seventeen as yet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At one time seventeen skilled workmen would manufacture five hundred dozen brooms per week. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Here, clean these shoes for number seventeen directly, and take 'em to private sitting-room, number five, first floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• At the end of the patent term (seventeen years) the price fell to 15c. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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