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five-and-ten

/fahyv-uhn-ten/US // ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛn //

五加一,五加十,五零,五十

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uhn-ten-sent], /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/, five-and-dime [fahyv-uhn-dahym], /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/, dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a five-and-ten.

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Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • “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.

  • In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.

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

  • Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.

  • The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.

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