Eighth
[eɪtθ] or [etθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) position eight in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position .
整理:威尔伯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Next in order after the seventh.
(a.) Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
(n.) The interval of an octave.
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例句/造句/用法:
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and seventh from Samuel. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- On the eighth day a letter in her handwriting was placed among the other letters on my table. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is the united testimony of manufacturers and farmers alike that the crop is increased from one-eighth to one-fourth, especially in the winter wheat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I am in my seventy-eighth year. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- EIGHTH NARRATIVE Contributed by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE I am the person (as you remember no doubt) who led the way in these pages, and opened the story. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries a steady process of conversion to Christianity went on amidst these German and Slavonic tribes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He suggested to me that he had a friend over on Eighth Avenue who made a superior grade of cigars, and who would show them a trick. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- If the tax for example, was one-tenth, the wages of labour must necessarily soon rise, not one-tenth part only, but one-eighth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The Feeder invention overcame this trouble, and made it possible to use conductors ONLY ONE-EIGHTH THE SIZE that would otherwise have been necessary to produce the same results. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mrs. Archer, who had long been a widow, lived with her son and daughter in West Twenty-eighth Street. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I have asked whether Henry the Eighth was an amiable character? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But if there is an eighth wonder in the world, it must be the dwelling-houses of Naples. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Among the three hundred stars observed Challis was struck by the appearance of one which presented a disk and shone with the brightness of a star of the eighth magnitude. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This rule we find still to hold good [Seventh and Eighth Experiments. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The fraction drum of the indicator could be driven in either direction, known as the advance and retrograde movements, and was divided and marked in eighths. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The quantity of this is said to be five eighths of what we eat. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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