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thrice

/thrahys/US // θraɪs //UK // (θraɪs) //

三次,三倍,两次

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : three times, as in succession; on three occasions or in three ways.
    • : in threefold quantity or degree.
    • : very; extremely.

Examples

  • Riders cram themselves into carriages running at thrice their capacity, in a self-organized human jigsaw that would sometimes find you dangling outside the permanently open doors of carriage, where at least you could breathe freely.

  • Wiskus, carrying a full 15-hour class load while practicing 20 hours per week, joined thrice-weekly Zoom calls with alumni to discuss strategy and review talking points for the flurry of interview requests that followed.

  • The Series C round has catapulted the company into unicorn status thrice over.

  • I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.

  • Those people have now been thrice betrayed--by Mubarak, by Morsi, and yesterday by the military.

  • Seriously, the Tea Party favorite has thrice run for a Delaware Senate seat and lost.

  • Thrice married and twice divorced, Tony exemplified a certain Hollywood archetype.

  • South Carolina evangelical voters cast their ballots overwhelmingly for a thrice-married admitted adulterer.

  • He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."

  • Walking thrice round it, he at each time gravely repeated: "If she dies she dies, but if she lives she lives."

  • Among others, an Abb thrice lifted his fork to his mouth, and thrice laid it down, with an eager stare of surprise.

  • The average quantity to begin with for a child of ten or twelve years has been twenty grains thrice daily.

  • Child, thrice child, only remember that I love you, and don't let anything disturb you.