Eight
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解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
(adj.) being one more than seven .
編輯:瑞伊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An island in a river; an ait.
(a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
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解釋/意思:
n. the cardinal number one above seven: the figure (8 or viii.) denoting eight.—adj. noting the number eight.—adjs. and ns. Eight′een eight and ten twice nine; Eight′eenmō same as Octodecimo (q.v.); Eight′eenth the ordinal number corresponding to eighteen.—n. Eight′foil (her.) an eight-leaved grass.—adjs. Eight′fold eight times any quantity; Eighth the ordinal number corresponding to eight.—n. an eighth part.—adv. Eighth′ly in the eighth place.—adjs. and ns. Eight′ieth the ordinal number corresponding to eighty; Eight′y eight times ten fourscore.—An eight a crew of a rowing-boat consisting of eight oarsmen; An eight-oar or simply Eight the boat itself; An eight days a week; Figure of eight a figure shaped like an 8 made in skating; Piece of eight a Spanish coin; The eights annual bumping boat-races which take place in the summer term in Oxford and Cambridge between the various colleges.
編輯:威尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The royal crown of France is a circle ornamented with eight fleur-de-lis, from which rise as many quarter-circles closing under a double fleur-de-lis. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The price is eight shillings the quarter of wheat. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In 1801 he built his first steam carriage, adapted to carry seven or eight passengers, which was said to have gone off like a bird, but broke down, and was taken to the home of Capt. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I'll come to night at eight o'clock. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- No guns or caissons should be taken with less than eight horses. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o'clock a. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What became of Little Dorrit between the two eights was a mystery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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