Thousand
['θaʊz(ə)nd] or ['θaʊznd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.
(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units .
阿方斯校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.
(n.) Hence, indefinitely, a great number.
(n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/.
(a.) Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.
(a.) Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.
凯瑟琳編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. denoting ten hundred: proverbially denoting any great number.—n. the number ten hundred: any large number.—adj. Thou′sandfold folded a thousand times: multiplied by a thousand.—n. Thou′sand-legs any one of the Myriapoda.—adj. Thou′sandth the last of a thousand or of any great number.—n. one of a thousand or of any great number.—One in a thousand anything exceedingly rare implying a high degree of rarity or excellence.
博妮塔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It might have been twenty thousand pound. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In 1793 the total export of cotton from the United States was less than ten thousand bales, but by 1860 the export was four million bales. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- His securities are bound in one thousand pounds to the society, which they will pay, but we are like to lose the rest. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Five thousand francs is a reason, said the other. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I do not mean that the members weren't deeply touched by the misery of these thousands of women. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They made speeches, and passed resolutions, and put their names down, and printed off thousands of prospectuses. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people on the most frivolous pretexts. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- So, when I am after a chemical result that I have in mind, I may make hundreds or thousands of experiments out of which there may be one that promises results in the right direction. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The strength of a motor may be increased by replacing the singly coiled armature by one closely wound on an iron core; in some armatures there are thousands of turns of wire. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I should think I could very likely get a wife with a few thousands, who would suit both me and my affairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- We find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They have a great machine which prints such things by thousands every hour. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He then perceived they were soldiers--thousands and tens of thousands; but they made no more noise than a swarm of midges on a summer evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He hung a row of lamps from the trees at Menlo Park, and the thousands who came to see them wondered when they found they could burn day and night for longer than a week. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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