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forty-eight

/fawr-tee-eyt/US // ˈfɔr tiˈeɪt //

四十八,四十八日,四十八个,四十八岁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 40 plus 8.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 48 or XLVIII.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
    • : the forty-eight, the 48 contiguous states of the U.S.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 48 in number.

Examples

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

  • The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

  • One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.

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

  • When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

  • After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

  • 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.