Tenths

例句:

• Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If nine-tenths of this quantity are imported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Sixty-five per cent of all the telephones in the world are in this country, although it has only five and five-tenths per cent of the world’s population. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Why not (say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine-tenths and losing only one-tenth? 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But to concentrate nine-tenths of your attention on the subject of dykes is to forget the civilization they are supposed to protect. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He might be dead in nine-tenths, yet the remaining tenth remained unchanged, till it too was torn apart. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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