Seventeen
[sev(ə)n'tiːn;'sev(ə)ntiːn] or [,sɛvn'tin]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one.
(adj.) being one more than sixteen .
整理:玛米--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.
(n.) The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
安布尔手打
解釋/意思:
adj. and n. seven and ten.—adj. and n. Sev′enteenth the seventh after the tenth.
克拉丽斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- On a fine Sunday evening, in the month of August, John Edmunds set foot in the village he had left with shame and disgrace seventeen years before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The child of seven years lives yet in the girl of seventeen, said she. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy--a boy of not more than seventeen at the most. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It warn't much--execution for nine pound nothin', multiplied by five for costs; but hows'ever here he stopped for seventeen year. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She is eighteen, or at least seventeen--old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Why, not a soul has been here during your absence, except a very interesting young woman, who did not appear to be more than seventeen years of age. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There she broke down, poor thing, and gave the other seventeen to the four winds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Seventeen or eighteen centuries ago this Coliseum was the theatre of Rome, and Rome was mistress of the world. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Seventeen people were made defendants to that simple suit! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He then found out that there were not defendants enough--remember, there were only seventeen as yet! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- At one time seventeen skilled workmen would manufacture five hundred dozen brooms per week. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Here, clean these shoes for number seventeen directly, and take 'em to private sitting-room, number five, first floor. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- At the end of the patent term (seventeen years) the price fell to 15c. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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