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fifty-fifth

/fif-tee-fifth or, often, -fith/US // ˈfɪf tiˈfɪfθ or, often, -ˈfɪθ //

第五十五届,第五十五次,第五十五,第五十五个

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the fifty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 55.
    • : being one of 55 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fifty-fifth part, especially of one.
    • : the fifty-fifth member of a series.

Examples

  • But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.

  • Gävle Goat must be dreading the imminent holiday and his fifty-fifty chance of destruction.

  • He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.

  • Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.

  • As late as the fifth century, powerful aristocratic women took charge of the commemoration of the dead in Rome.

  • The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

  • In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.

  • Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.

  • These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.

  • Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.