Sixteen
[sɪks'tiːn;'sɪkstiːn] or [,sɪks'tin]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one.
(adj.) being one more than fifteen .
手打:托德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
凯思琳校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I was sixteen. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Graham was at that time a handsome, faithless-looking youth of sixteen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And indeed they did; they were quite beyond my uncle's management, and kept the old gentleman in a panic for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Because he is a boy and you are a girl; he is sixteen and you are only six; his nature is strong and gay, and yours is otherwise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Sixteen shillings, therefore, was the price of two quarters and more than three bushels of wheat. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Palissy had shown the inborn courage of his nature during those sixteen lean years in Saintes. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If the incandescent light is four times as far away from the screen as the candle, and the shadows are equal, we know, by Section 100, that its strength is sixteen candle power. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The engine was placed behind the carriage, which was capable of containing sixteen persons, besides the engineer and guide. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- For sixteen years Palissy experimented. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The new operating room contained sixteen vertical engines with a capacity each of over 5,000 horse-power. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- One of these, known as Blenkinsop’s Leeds engine, ran on a tramway, and would draw sixteen wagons with a weight of seventy tons at the rate of about three miles an hour. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Then they are beautiful, at sixteen, seventeen, eighteen--after that, they are no use to me. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There are sixty beds in a ward; and the bolt's on, sixteen hours out of the four-and-twenty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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