Every day, people speaking English ask one another questions like these, "Did you say seventy or seventeen?"(讲英语的人每天都会相互问这样的问题:“你是说70还是17?”)
Life, a summer holiday until seventeen.(生活,直到17岁的暑假。)
Nora thought he was seventeen years old.(诺拉觉得他有17岁。)
Seventeen civilians were hurt. Most are students who had been attending a twenty-first birthday party.(17名平民受了伤,其中大多数是参加一个21岁生日聚会的学生。)
Chelsea Fearce is seventeen years old.(切尔西·菲尔斯17岁了。)
Seventeen congressmen were absent at the Congressional roll call.(议会点名时有17名议员缺席。)
Seventeen states allow parents to get an exemption.(有17个州允许家长免接种疫苗。)
He was only seventeen when he joined the army.(他参军时不过17岁。)
Canada geese flying in a V shape can fly seventeen percent farther without having a rest than the birds flying alone.(与单独飞行的鸟类相比,以V形飞行的加拿大鹅在没有休息的情况下可以多飞17%。)