Thirteenth
['θɜːtiːnθ] or ['θɝtinθ]
解释:
(noun.) position 13 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the twelfth in position .
整理:卢修斯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
(a.) Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the twelfth.
(n.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
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例句:
- The church in the thirteenth century was extending its legal power in the world, and losing its grip upon men's consciences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Nevertheless, his intrepid adversary prepared to close for the thirteenth time. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- By the thirteenth century the Hansa merchants were already sailing regularly from Bergen across the grey cold seas to the Northmen in Iceland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- If we measure the column in the tube, we find its height is about one thirteenth of 34 feet or 30 inches, exactly what we should expect. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Already in the thirteenth century we have seen Pope Gregory IX and the Emperor Frederick II engaging in a violent public controversy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Emperor Frederick II is a very convenient example of the sort of doubter and rebel the thirteenth century could produce. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Artesian wells appear to have first been known in Europe in the province of Artois, France, in the thirteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is only in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that we find the Nordic intelligence struggling through again to expression. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So that while the eleventh century was a century of ignorant and confiding men, the thirteenth was an age of knowing and disillusioned men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Sometimes a thirteenth spoon was added, called the Master spoon, because it bore the figure of Christ. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This was already beginning in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with the appearance of the Black and Grey Friars (chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In the beginning of the thirteenth century there were a number of separate and discordant Moslem states in Western Asia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All the craft and policy of the Popes of the thirteenth century to oust the Emperor from Italy had only served to let in the French to replace him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Weight clocks had been in use as t ime-measurers since the thirteenth century, but they were, as we have seen, difficult to control and otherwise unreliable. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
整理:梅纳德