Seven
['sev(ə)n] or ['sɛvn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one.
(adj.) being one more than six .
校對:凯尔西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) One more than six; six and one added; as, seven days make one week.
(n.) The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.
欧文整理
解釋/意思:
adj. and n. six and one.—adj. Sev′en-fold folded seven times: multiplied seven times.—n. Sev′en-night seven days and nights: a week the time from one day of the week to the same again—also contr. Sennight (sen′nīt).—adj. Sev′enth last of seven next after the sixth.—n. one of seven equal parts.—adv. Sev′enthly.—Seven cardinal chief or principal virtues (see Cardinal); Seven champions of Christendom St George for England St Andrew for Scotland St Patrick for Ireland St David for Wales St Denis for France St James for Spain St Anthony for Italy; Seven deadly sins pride covetousness lust anger gluttony envy and sloth; Seven dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (see Dolour); Seven free arts (see Arts); Seven gifts of the Holy Ghost wisdom understanding counsel ghostly strength or fortitude knowledge godliness and the fear of the Lord; Seven sages or wise men Solon of Athens Thales of Miletus Pittacus of Mitylene Bias of Priene in Caria Chilon of Sparta Cleobulus tyrant of Lindus in Rhodes and Periander tyrant of Corinth; Seven Sleepers seven Christian youths at Ephesus who took refuge in a cave about 250 A.D. in the persecution of Decius were walled up by their pursuers fell into a deep sleep and only awoke in 447 under Theodosius II.; Seven stars the Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn: the constellation Ursa Major: the Pleiades; Seven wise masters the most common title given to a famous medieval collection of stories grouped round a central story of the birth education and trials of a young prince. Accused like Joseph he is sentenced to death but each one of the seven viziers gains a day out of the fated seven during which the prince may not open his mouth by two tales against women. At the end of the seventh day the prince is free to speak and quickly clears his character; Seven wonders of the world the Pyramids of Egypt the Hanging (i.e. terraced) Gardens of Babylon the Temple of Diana at Ephesus the Statue of Jupiter at Athens by Phidias the Mausoleum erected by Artemisia at Halicarnassus the Colossus at Rhodes and the Pharos of Alexandria; Seven years' war (1756-63) the third and severest struggle for the possession of Silesia between Frederick the Great and the Empress Maria Theresa together with the allies on both sides; it gave Silesia to Frederick and to England the mastery of North America and India.
編輯:梅尔维尔
例句/造句/用法:
- I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- With its sharp clear bell it strikes three quarters after seven and ticks on again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The shoes are then covered with a coat of rubber varnish, and are put into cars and run into the vulcanizing ovens, where they remain from six to seven hours at a temperature of about 275°. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- These engines weigh as much as 31 tons, which is seven times more than the weight of the Rocket. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- He had only to describe himself as a seven months' child. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When the maid entered, about seven, there the unfortunate fellow was hanging in the middle of the room. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o'clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Why, him in twenty-seven in the third, that this gentleman's going to be chummed on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Here the peerless Saladin met the Christian host some seven hundred years ago, and broke their power in Palestine for all time to come. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This had been going on more than five months, seven days a week, when I was called down to the laboratory to see him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Fighting was substantially over by half-past seven in the morning. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In 1801 he built his first steam carriage, adapted to carry seven or eight passengers, which was said to have gone off like a bird, but broke down, and was taken to the home of Capt. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It was as late as seven o'clock when he awoke refreshed, and went out into the streets again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Everything is so at sixes and sevens. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The least they pretended was that they were going to cut Lowick Parish into sixes and sevens. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Years ago she had said that when she married she would braid it in sevens. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They won't give 'em up, said the man; there's a regular shinty in the house, and everything at sixes and sevens. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She had braided it in sevens today. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They were seventy-sevens and came with a whishing rush of air, a hard bright burst and flash and then gray smoke that blew across the road. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
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