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forty-seventh

/fawr-tee-sev-uhnth/US // ˈfɔr tiˈsɛv ənθ //

第四十七次,第四十七届,第四十七次会议,第四十七章

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
    • : being one of 47 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a forty-seventh part, especially of one.
    • : the forty-seventh member of a series.

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.

  • Rick would cut together five years worth of work, add the sixth, then recut six years worth of work, add the seventh, and so on.

  • 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.

  • It will be no more monotonous than having one's seventh birthday or falling in love for the first time.