Forty
['fɔːtɪ] or ['fɔrti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four.
(adj.) being ten more than thirty .
艾弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.
(n.) The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
手打:罗莎琳德
解釋/意思:
adj. and n. four times ten.—adj. For′tieth.—n. a fortieth part.—Forty winks a short nap esp. after dinner.—The Forty the French Academy.
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例句/造句/用法:
- On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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.
- My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The Forty-Niners took revolvers to California, foreign governments sent orders for them, and armories were built in England and in Russia for their manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Five-and-forty green parasols, at seven and sixpence a-piece. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- With Ephesus, forty miles from here, where was located another of the seven churches, the case was different. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At Jaffa we had taken on board some forty members of a very celebrated community. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Dairymen collect milk over a radius of thirty or forty miles and get it to market fresh. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- An iron rod about forty feet long and sharp at the end was placed upr ight in the hope of drawing electricity from the st orm-clouds. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Was it likely that a young woman of twenty-one would die before a man of forty five, and die without children? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was this intensely interesting side of bee life that attracted the attention of a clergyman in failing health, forced to seek out-of-door occupation, in the early forties. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Their use was known to our seafaring men in the forties, for it was in that decade that Capt. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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