Tenth
[tenθ] or [tɛnθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) position ten in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position .
黛朵錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
(n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
(n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
克莱尔手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Tithe.
布伦特校對
解釋/意思:
adj. the last of ten: next in order after the ninth.—n. one of ten equal parts.—adv. Tenth′ly in the tenth place.
霍奇編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found to be a very great hindrance to improvement. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I saw a great deal of the Duc de Guiche, who used to be called, while in the Tenth Hussars, the Count de Grammont, during my short stay at Brighton. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It was reduced to a tenth only in the course of the present century. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was to the alternating voice that gave out about one-tenth of them--the voice that had wished her good night. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Were you there, Tenente, when they wouldn't attack and they shot every tenth man? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The insurgents gathered at the H?tel de Ville, and on the tenth of August the Commune launched an attack on the palace of the Tuileries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The dinner, which was given expressly for the officers of the Tenth Hussars, he was obliged to attend. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Have mercy, O Master of the Tenth Cycle! 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This tax was originally a half; it soon afterwards fell to a third, then to a fifth, and at last to a tenth, at which late it still continues. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If nine-tenths of this quantity are imported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Sixty-five per cent of all the telephones in the world are in this country, although it has only five and five-tenths per cent of the world’s population. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Why not (say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine-tenths and losing only one-tenth? 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But to concentrate nine-tenths of your attention on the subject of dykes is to forget the civilization they are supposed to protect. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He might be dead in nine-tenths, yet the remaining tenth remained unchanged, till it too was torn apart. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
校對:马蒂