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fortnight

/fawrt-nahyt, -nit/US // ˈfɔrtˌnaɪt, -nɪt //UK // (ˈfɔːtˌnaɪt) //

两星期,两周,两周时间,两星期时间

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the space of fourteen nights and days; two weeks.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfourteen nights and days; two weeks

Examples

  • This that you describe must have happened a fortnight after he died.

  • There were no other visitors save for a man who came for a fortnight with his wife and seven children.

  • Fireplace ashes are a hazard for at least a day and can remain so for as long as a fortnight, Duran says.

  • A fortnight ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, accused Israel of committing "genocide" against the Palestinians.

  • It appears that even the sedate Fortnight has a soft spot for star-f------.

  • A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.

  • Some of the half-made hay in the meadows looks as though it had been standing out to bleach for the last fortnight.

  • Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

  • I shall be glad to hear from you soon, as I intend to go to Padstow in a few days and shall not return under a fortnight.

  • During that fortnight of silence the whole of the Turkish Empire has been moving—closing in—on the Dardanelles.