[ORD 序数词]第五 The fifth item in a series is the one that you count as number five.
Joe has recently returned from his fifth trip to Australia.
乔最近结束了第五次澳大利亚之行归来。
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[FRACTION 分数词]五分之一 A fifth is one of five equal parts of something.
India spends over a fifth of its budget on defence.
印度的国防开支占了其财政预算的 1/5 强。
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fifth★/fɪfθ; NAmEfɪfθ/
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fifthfifthsordinal number★5th 第五◆Today is the fifth (of May).今天是(五月)五号。◆the fifth century BC公元前五世纪◆It's her fifth birthday.这是她五岁生日。◆My office is on the fifth floor.我的办公室在六楼。◆It's the fifth time that I've been to America.这是我第五次去美国了。◆Her mother had just given birth to another child, her fifth.她的母亲刚又生了孩子,她的第五个孩子。◆the world's fifth-largest oil exporter世界第五大石油输出国◆He finished fifth in the race.他赛跑得了第五名。◆Edward V (= Edward the Fifth)爱德华五世noun★each of five equal parts of sth 五分之一◆She cut the cake into fifths.她把蛋糕切成五块。◆He gave her a fifth of the total amount.他给了她总数的五分之一。IDIOMtake/plead the ˈfifth( US) to make use of the right to refuse to answer questions in court about a crime, because you may give information which will make it seem that you are guilty (在法庭上)拒绝回答,避而不答ORIGINFrom the Fifth Amendmentof the US Constitution, which guarantees this right. 源自《美国宪法》第五条修正案,该条保障这种权利。fifth/fɪfθ; NAmEfɪfθ/
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fifth1 adjective
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fifthfifth1 /fɪfθ/ ●●●S3W3 adjective
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1coming after four other things in a series: in the fifth century her fifth birthday2 fifth wheel American English informal someone who is not wanted in a particular group of people: They’d made her feel like a fifth wheel.—fifth pronoun: I’m planning to leave on the fifth (=the fifth day of the month).—fifthly adverb
fifth1 adjective
fifth2 noun
fifthfifth2 noun [countable]
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1one of five equal parts of something2American English an amount of alcohol equal to 1/5 of an American gallon(1), sold in bottles: a fifth of bourbon
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第五(83%),五分之一(17%)
num.第五
n.第五;五分之一
adj.第五的;五分之一的
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