Four
[fɔː] or [fɔr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
(adj.) being one more than three .
手打:威尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) One more than three; twice two.
(n.) The sum of four units; four units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.
(n.) Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.
校對:威拉德
解釋/意思:
adj. and n. two and two a cardinal number.—adjs. Four′fold folded four times: multiplied four times; Four′-foot′ed having four feet; Four′-hand′ed having four hands: of a game played by four people; Four′-inched (Shak.) four inches broad.—ns. Four′-in-hand a vehicle drawn by four horses driven by one person: a team of four horses drawing a carriage—also adj.; Four′penny a small silver coin worth fourpence formerly coined in England.—adj. worth fourpence.—n. Four′-post′er a large bed with four posts on which to hang curtains.—adjs. Four′score four times a score—80; Four′some by fours: anything in which four act together—also n.; Four′square having four equal sides and angles: square.—adjs. and ns. Four′teen four and ten; Four′teenth four or the fourth after the tenth.—adj. Fourth next after the third.—n. one of four equal parts.—adv. Fourth′ly.—adj. Fourth′-rate of the fourth class or order.—n. Four′-wheel′er a carriage or cab with four wheels.—Go on all fours to go on hands and knees.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a grammatical bog. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She is four-and-twenty. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He left his dead and nearly all his wounded in our hands, and about four hundred prisoners and several hundred horses. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, bless the bed that I lie on; four angels guard-- Hold your tongue. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He showed four fingers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The exhaust valve is then closed, the inlet valve opened, and another cycle of four strokes begins. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Yes: there was a chaise- and-four, a short distance before them, dashing along at full gallop. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- George remained four years at a French university, and, applying himself with an unintermitted zeal, obtained a very thorough education. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The reptile is on all fours with the seeding plant in its freedom from the necessity to pass any stage of its life cycle in water. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some perhaps went on all fours, some chiefly went on their hind legs and clambered with their fore limbs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Now, therefore, send the Christian dog on all fours, and barefoot, into the holy place to mend the clock, and let him go as an ass! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far outspread to take up the shock. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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