Third
[θɜːd] or [θɝd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; 'a simple harmony written in major thirds'.
(noun.) following the second position in an ordering or series; 'a distant third'; 'he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment'.
(adj.) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position .
(adv.) in the third place; 'third we must consider unemployment'.
卡梅拉整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
(a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
(n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
(n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
整理:玛丽斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Third part.
杰里手打
解釋/意思:
adj. the last of three.—n. one of three equal parts: (golf) a handicap of a stroke every third hole.—ns. Third′-bor′ough (Shak.) an under-constable; Third′ing the third part of anything.—adv. Third′ly in the third place.—adj. Third′-rate of the third order.—n. Thirds′man a mediator.—Third estate in England the House of Commons; Third person in the Trinity the Holy Spirit.
校對:迈拉
例句/造句/用法:
- It would seem to be always the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- And that third person could only have come in through the window. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- First of all tack tarred building paper to the studding, running the strips up and down and having them catch on every third studding. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The possession of a grey garment was a third point which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a certainty. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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.
- I feel I can easily and naturally make room in my heart for you, as my third and youngest sister. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The third on the right is his, said the inspector. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- On the third day, the prince's servant was again despatched on the same errand, and he was at last successful. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I am so much attached to you that I may confide in you, my dear, as a third party wholly disinterested, that he is fickleness itself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- One edition passes into another, and that into a third, and so on, till we come to that volume we peruse at present. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I think St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, found this wonderful memento when she was here in the third century. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Take a vial about two-thirds full of muriatic acid and put into it little bits of sheet zinc as long as the acid will dissolve them. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- But any of these might subsequently be included with the assent of two thirds of the Assembly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This mishap occurred when she was descending an open slope about two-thirds home. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The population of Genoa is 120,000; two-thirds of these are women, I think, and at least two-thirds of the women are beautiful. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Of this, half or more were slaves and strangers, and two-thirds of the free body women and children. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hevea trees are scattered through the dense forests of practically every part of the Amazon Basin, a territory more than two-thirds as large as the United States. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The bottle stood near them, two-thirds full, and beside it lay a long, deeply stained cork. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Five dollars, sixty-six and two-thirds per cent. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The human body itself consists largely of water; indeed, about two thirds of our own weight is water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- For comfort and health, the air should be about two thirds saturated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The new route is less than two-thirds of the former. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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