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forty winks

四十问,四十媚娘,四十秒,四十秒微笑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a short nap.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’

  • I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

  • Almost forty years later, it seems unlikely this will ever be the case.

  • Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.

  • We were on it for forty minutes of the film, a considerable part of our schedule.

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

  • It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.

  • After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

  • It was Wednesday night; over forty men sat down to the house-dinner at the Pandemonium Club.

  • The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.