Thirteen

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

(adj.) being one more than twelve .

杰米整理

• Three months comprised thirteen weeks. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Over thirteen, sir, replied the child. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It crosses thirteen states; it is carried on 130,000 poles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In Berlin there is a rifled cannon of 1664 with thirteen grooves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• By these improvements he succeeded in raising the speed of steam-vessels to thirteen miles an hour. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The captain said she had once gone at the rate of thirteen knots, which is accounted thirteen miles per hour. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• To the west of the thirteen states stretched limitless lands into which settlers were now pushing in ever-increasing numbers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In which thirteen African Lions and twenty-two Barbarian Prisoners will war with each other until all are exterminated. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I went from her when I was only thirteen, and I never saw her again! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The fort ran across this peninsula, about five hundred yards in width, and extended along the sea coast about thirteen hundred yards. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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