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fifteen

/fif-teen/US // ˈfɪfˈtin //UK // (ˈfɪfˈtiːn) //

十五,十五岁,十五名,十五个

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, ten plus five.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 15 or XV.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 15 in number.

Examples

  • Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.

  • Fifteen people were killed, more than 200 were injured, and more than 300 families lost their homes.

  • It took me fifteen minutes to fill a thick black Hefty bag with papers and computer parts.

  • Fifteen years later, the same communities had returned for the annual celebration, as most had year after year.

  • Fifteen years after its last execution, Pennsylvania is finding it difficult to fire up its death machine again.

  • General Santa Anna is within a mile of us with fifteen hundred men.

  • At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.

  • At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.

  • In these rooms male and female alike were confined, at one time to the number of fifteen; each being allowed 3d.

  • The office of clerk of the court is about to be sold, having been placed at fifteen hundred pesos.

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