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fifty-five

/fif-tee-fahyv/US // ˈfɪf tiˈfaɪv //

五十五,五五,五十五岁,五十五个

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 55 or LV.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 55 in number.

Examples

  • “It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

  • The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

  • The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

  • After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

  • “The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

  • 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.

  • I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

  • Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.