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

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units .

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• Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But the twelve-mile drive? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The twelve strokes sounded, she grew docile, and would meekly lie down. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She was engaged to breakfast that morning with the Duchess of Beltshire, and at twelve o'clock she asked to be set ashore in the gig. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Don't be afraid, dear, he said good-naturedly; it is but a twelve hours' passage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Isn't it an extraordinary thing of Krook to have appointed twelve o'clock to-night to hand 'em over to me? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Please, sir, there's twelve gentlemen wants to see ye, 'for a purpose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At this point, where my pipe is now resting, a county constable was on duty from twelve to six. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Twelve o'clock; well _now_ we'll see, said she, turning, and opening the door into the passage-way, and standing as if listening. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is not twelve o'clock yet. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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