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
- : 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.
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