Thirteen
[θɜː'tiːn;'θɜːtiːn] or ['θɝ'tin]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one.
(adj.) being one more than twelve .
杰米整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.
(n.) The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.
埃琳娜整理
解釋/意思:
adj. and n. three and ten.—adj. and n. Thir′teenth the last of thirteen: a thirteenth part.
手打:玛丽安
例句/造句/用法:
- Three months comprised thirteen weeks. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Over thirteen, sir, replied the child. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It crosses thirteen states; it is carried on 130,000 poles. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In Berlin there is a rifled cannon of 1664 with thirteen grooves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- By these improvements he succeeded in raising the speed of steam-vessels to thirteen miles an hour. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The captain said she had once gone at the rate of thirteen knots, which is accounted thirteen miles per hour. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- To the west of the thirteen states stretched limitless lands into which settlers were now pushing in ever-increasing numbers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In which thirteen African Lions and twenty-two Barbarian Prisoners will war with each other until all are exterminated. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I went from her when I was only thirteen, and I never saw her again! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The fort ran across this peninsula, about five hundred yards in width, and extended along the sea coast about thirteen hundred yards. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
編輯:马克斯