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fifty-third

/fif-tee-thurd/US // ˈfɪf tiˈθɜrd //

第五十三,第五十三届,第五十三次,第五十三号

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the fifty-second; being the ordinal number for 53.
    • : being one of 53 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fifty-third part, especially of one.
    • : the fifty-third member of a series.

Examples

  • The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.

  • Officials have said the war to reclaim upward of a third of Iraq and a quarter of Syria from ISIS could take years.

  • Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.

  • The third problem is the evidence of corroborating witnesses.

  • Murders are slightly down from 414 last year, but have fallen by about one—third since 2003.

  • 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.

  • But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.

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