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fourscore

/fawr-skawr, fohr-skohr/US // ˈfɔrˈskɔr, ˈfoʊrˈskoʊr //UK // (ˌfɔːˈskɔː) //

四点钟,四分,四分球,四分卫

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : four times twenty; eighty.

Examples

  • At 82, Lloyd is the same age range as Lear, “fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less.”

  • And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents.

  • One other suit there is better than that; but very many lots of three and fourscore pounds.

  • Then came the roar of the first gun, fired by old Mr. Ruffin, gray-haired, nearly fourscore.

  • The first to manifest itself in childhood, it was still active at the age of fourscore.

  • And now hath every city sent up her tale of men: The foot are fourscore thousand, the horse are thousands ten.