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double-figure

/duhb-uhl-fig-yer; British duhb-uhl-fig-er/US // ˈdʌb əlˈfɪg yər; British ˈdʌb əlˈfɪg ər //

两位数,双位数,两位数的,二位数

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    British.

    • : double-digit.

Examples

  • There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.

  • Even other men of color considered Revels a curious figure, for Mississippi had never had a large free black population.

  • The people who are involved in the violence, they figure out ways to remain here at all costs and continue causing trouble.

  • And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’

  • Several of them disputed the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust.

  • Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.

  • In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.

  • It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.