Fifteenth
[fɪf'tiːnθ] or ['fɪf'tinθ]
解释:
(noun.) position 15 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position .
埃尔莎整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
(a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
(n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
(n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
(n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
(n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
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例句:
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It is curious to note that this law against the imitation of silver, which really dated from the fifteenth century, made a special exception to articles made for the Church. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey's accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- As early as the fifteenth century we have much evidence of the universality of the game all over southern Europe. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Such store-houses were erected in almost every town during the fifteenth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They were invented in the fourteenth century but were not much used until the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- All over Europe in the fifteenth century merchants and sailors were speculating about new ways to the East. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was only as the fifteenth century drew to its close that any indications of the real vitality of Western Europe became clearly apparent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is probably the same as the match-lock revolver in the museum of the Tower of London, which is also credited to the Fifteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The high seas called for the sailing ship, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it appears, keeping its course by the compass and the stars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Muskets with straight grooves are said to have been used in the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Here we devote a section to certain elementary statements about the movement in men's religious ideas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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