Fifth
[fɪfθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it.
(noun.) a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon.
(noun.) position five in a countable series of things; 'he was fifth out of several hundred runners'.
(adj.) coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position .
艾布拉姆編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
(a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
(n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
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解釋/意思:
adj. next after the fourth.—n. one of five equal parts: (mus.) a tone five diatonic degrees above or below any given tone.—adv. Fifth′ly in the fifth place.—ns. Fifth′-mon′archism; Fifth′-mon′archist.—Fifth-monarchy men an extreme sect of the time of the Puritan revolution who looked for the establishment of a new reign of Christ on earth in succession to Daniel's four great monarchies of Antichrist.
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例句/造句/用法:
- This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I don't think Fifth-of-Novembers ought to be kept up by night except in towns. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She reached Fifth Avenue and began to walk slowly northward. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The fifth corps reached the North Anna on the afternoon of the 23d, closely followed by the sixth corps. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Yes, Caroline; you hear the wire of the bell vibrate; it rings again for the fifth time this afternoon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The fifth was Sir Edwin Turneham. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the fifth century the great civilization of Rome fell under the ruthless attack of the northern barbarian. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Not that the family would admit that: they think Fifth Avenue is Heaven with the rue de la Paix thrown in. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Captain Gomez of the Sixty-Fifth Brigade, he said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- This reference is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus, wherein the Lord commanded Moses to make golden spoons for the Tabernacle. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- On the morning of the fifth day I went upstairs to see if the Professor was ready to go out. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I was up at 65 Fifth Avenue one afternoon. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- On the night of the 7th, the march was commenced towards Spottsylvania Court House, the fifth corps moving on the most direct road. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Two-fifths part of dextrine (or the same quantity of gelatine) may be substituted for the 2 parts of starch. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The wet meter is composed of an outer box about three-fifths filled with water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The atmosphere, which we ordinarily think of as a storehouse of oxygen, contains far more nitrogen than oxygen, since four fifths of its whole weight is made up of this element. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The African mines now produce four-fifths of the diamond supply. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Almost four fifths of the air around us is made up of nitrogen. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- For the other four-fifths she turned to atmospheric nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He knew that in Newcomen’s engine four-fifths of all the steam used was lost in heating the cold cylinder, and that only one-fifth was actually used in moving the piston. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This is a glass jar coated both inside and outside with tinfoil for about four-fifths of its height. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The canal makes San Francisco nearer to Liverpool by 5,666 miles, a saving of two-fifths of the old journey by Magellan. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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