Twelve
[twelv] or [twɛlv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one.
(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units .
艾玛手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.
(n.) The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.
(n.) A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.
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解釋/意思:
adj. ten and two.—n. the number next after eleven: the figures representing twelve: (pl.) same as duodecimo.—ns. Twelve′-mo same as duodecimo written 12mo; Twelve′-month twelve months: a year.—adjs. Twelve′-penn′y worth a shilling: trifling insignificant; Twelve′score twelve times twenty or two hundred and forty.—n. twelvescore yards a common range in archery used also in measurements.—Twelve-day writ a writ in actions on bills &c. warning defendant to appear within twelve days otherwise judgment would go against him; Twelve Tables the name given to the earliest code of Roman law civil criminal and religious made by the decemvirs in 451-449 B.C.—Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs a work of the 2d century after Christ in which on the model of Jacob's blessing of the tribes in Genesis xlix. discourses and prophecies of Christ are put into the mouths of the fathers of Israel; The Twelve the twelve apostles.
編輯:西尔维亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- But the twelve-mile drive? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The twelve strokes sounded, she grew docile, and would meekly lie down. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She was engaged to breakfast that morning with the Duchess of Beltshire, and at twelve o'clock she asked to be set ashore in the gig. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Don't be afraid, dear, he said good-naturedly; it is but a twelve hours' passage. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Isn't it an extraordinary thing of Krook to have appointed twelve o'clock to-night to hand 'em over to me? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Please, sir, there's twelve gentlemen wants to see ye, 'for a purpose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At this point, where my pipe is now resting, a county constable was on duty from twelve to six. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Twelve o'clock; well _now_ we'll see, said she, turning, and opening the door into the passage-way, and standing as if listening. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is not twelve o'clock yet. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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