英语单词 | forty |
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英美音标 | 英 ['fɔːti] 美 ['fɔːrti] |
中文释义 | num.四十 adj.四十 pron.四十(个;只 ... ) |
英语例句 | (1) They managed to squash forty people into the bus. (2) He reigned over the country for forty years. |
中文例句 | (1) 那辆公共汽车好不容易塞进了四十个人。 (2) 他统治了这个国家四十年。 |
vocabulary简明 | Whether you call it 40 or XL, you're talking about forty: the number between thirty-nine and forty-one. |
vocabulary扩展 | If you’ve ever seen the Roman numeral XL, that means forty, since X equals ten, L equals 50 and if you put the X before the L it means L minus X or 50 minus 10 — which is 40. This number comes up in the Bible a lot, especially when the earth is said to have been flooded for forty days and forty nights. Most people are not that thrilled to turn 40 years old: it means they're middle-aged. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [NUM 数词](数字)40 Forty is the number 40. 2 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]四十多,四十几(指从40至49的数字) When you talk about the forties, you are referring to numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you are in your forties, you are aged between 40 and 49. If the temperature is in the forties, the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees.
3 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]二十世纪四十年代(指从 1940 年至 1949 年) The forties is the decade between 1940 and 1949. [
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