Fives
[faɪvz]
解释:
(noun.) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls.
录入:山姆--From WordNet
解释:
(n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
(n.) A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
整理:雪莉
解释:
n. (Shak.) vives a disease of horses.
n.pl. a game of handball played in a roomy court against a wall chiefly at the great public schools of England.
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例句:
- Three hundred fives. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Look what the funds were on the 1st of March--what the French fives were when I bought for the count. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
录入:索菲娅