Everybody was puzzled, and nineteen couples were surprised and indignant.

'I am in my seventy-eighth year.'

“ 我七十八岁了. ”

He remembered the few times he had seen her in Seventy-eight Street.

他回想起在七十八街见过她的那几次.

Hebirdied the 18 th hole to win the match.

他以比标准杆数少一杆的成绩打进第十八洞而赢得这次比赛.

She was twenty-seven perhaps , plump, and in a coarse fashion pretty.

她大约有二十七岁, 体态丰满,长得虽然俗气, 倒挺漂亮.

Something of a prodigy, he quit high school at 17.

带有几分传奇色彩的是, 他在十七岁念高中时退学.

He looked at his watch : eight-seventeen.

他看看表,八点十七分.

I'm sixteen years old and I don't need a governess.

十六岁.我不想要家庭教师.

I want to learn to drive now that I'm sixteen.

我都十六岁了,我想学驾驶.

The scale of the map is 1 : 460000.

这张地图的比例尺是四十六万分之一.

The actress is thirty-five years old, but she appears a lot younger.

那个女演员 三十五 岁了, 但是她看上去年轻得多.

I have grown a lot older in the last twenty-four hours.

二十四 小时以来,我老了许多.

This string of golden beads was worth about 12 or 14 pounds.

这一串金珠值十二到十四英镑.

He passed twenty-four years in solitude.

他在孤独中度过了二十四年.

" You tried to buy it with eighty-four days at sea.

" 你曾想拿在海上的八十四天来买它.

There was still time, even with the loss of fourteen years.

尽管已经失去了十四年,还来得及.

The application must be made within twenty-four hours, or it will not be attended to.

申请必须在 二十四 小时内办理, 否则不予受理.

Twenty-four hours make a day.

二十四 小时为一日.

'It's twenty-three at the hostel.

“ 宿舍是二十三点.

The lights would be switched off at the main at twenty-three thirty.

到二十三点三十分电门总闸就要关掉.

We put the boy down as nine years old.

我们估计这男孩有九岁.