Fourteenth
['fɔː'tiːnθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) position 14 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the thirteenth in position .
整理:昆廷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
(a.) Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
(n.) One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
(n.) The octave of the seventh.
編輯:蒂姆
例句/造句/用法:
- And why did Bretton and my fourteenth year haunt me thus? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This action, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is expected to come on, on the fourteenth of next month. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It'll come on, in the settens after Term: fourteenth of Febooary, we expect; we've marked it a special jury cause, and it's only ten down the paper. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Ten years ago I bade them good-by; since my fourteenth year they and I had never met. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On the three following days he remained perfectly well, and on the fourteenth day he went away to join Lucie and her husband. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Missing, it said, on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named Hosmer Angel. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They were invented in the fourteenth century but were not much used until the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Throughout the fourteenth century the papacy did nothing to recover its moral sway. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Robert B oyle (1626-1691), born at Castle Lismore in Ireland, was the seventh son and fourteenth child of the distinguished first Earl of Cork. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Brunel, in 1805-1808, devised a set of circular saws run by a steam engine, which cut sheets of rosewood and mahogany, one-fourteenth of an inch thick, with great speed and accuracy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The high seas called for the sailing ship, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it appears, keeping its course by the compass and the stars. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With the fourteenth century the real history of the European literatures begins. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The cross marks the spot where a celebrated troubadour was waylaid and murdered in the fourteenth century. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- On the fourteenth, came Mr. Godfrey's answer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
整理:辛克莱