Fourth
[fɔːθ] or [fɔrθ]
解释:
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it.
(noun.) following the third position; number four in a countable series.
(adj.) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; 'the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present' .
卡斯特罗校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
(a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
(n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
(n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
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例句:
- In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We backed a horse named Light For Me that finished fourth in a field of five. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I was in hopes there would be act the fourth, retorted I; but, seriously, what do you understand by a scene? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- On the fourth morning all vanished. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- On the fourth day the fever broke as suddenly as it had come, but it left D'Arnot a shadow of his former self, and very weak. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The Fourth of July was safe, as far as the Mediterranean was concerned. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I am a connoisseur, said he, taking another cigarette from the box--his fourth--and lighting it from the stub of that which he had finished. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The third contented herself with wondering 'what ladies was made of'; and the fourth took the first in a quartette of 'Shameful! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Another packet arrived; she too was detained, and before we sailed a fourth was expected. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- You describe three-fourths of the world, Caroline. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It is estimated that more than 180,000 machines of the self-binding type are now produced yearly, the manufacturers in Chicago alone turning out more than three-fourths of this number. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The photographs on the film, one by three-fourths of an inch in size, leave a margin of five thirty-seconds of an inch on each side. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Half or three-fourths-inch rods with heavy caps at the ends should be sufficient, and are easily put in place before the boards are tacked to the partition. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Jeweler’s gold is usually a mixture of gold and copper in the proportions of three-fourths of pure gold with one-fourth of copper. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- As fully three-fourths of the area of their exterior framework consists of windows, an abundance of daylight is secured. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
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