1·"Wait," said Mom, numbering the paper one to seventeen.
“等一下。”妈妈说，把纸从一数到十七。
2·I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old.
我意识到这个，是听我的主人说的，大概在1835年的时候，那时我大约十七岁。
3·He emigrated to the United States when he was seventeen years old, and was naturalized on his twentieth birthday.
他十七岁时移居美国，二十岁生日时就入籍了。
4·Seventeen prisoners held on death row are to be executed after their pleas for clemency were turned down.
十七名死刑犯在申请宽赦被拒后将被处决。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·Twenty minus three is seventeen.
二十减三等于十七。
1·She had seventeen children and two of them died.
她有十七个孩子，其中两个夭折了。
2·I have seventeen.
我有十七个。
3·Seventeen patients with advanced melanoma—a skin cancer that has spread to other parts of the body—received the experimental treatment.
十七个患有黑素瘤——一种皮肤癌并已扩散到身体其他部位的晚期癌症病人——接受了治疗实验。
4·Unemployment is the highest of the seventeen nations that use the euro.
西班牙的失业率在欧元区十七个国家中是最高的。
5·Are there seventeen girls in our class? No. There are eighteen girls.
我们班有十七个女孩吗？不，有十八个女孩。