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twain

/tweyn/US // tweɪn //UK // (tweɪn) //

吐温,吐纳,吐蕃人,吐鲁番

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : two.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Cosby had turned down the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor twice before.

  • Mark Twain famously said courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

  • Twain taught me that although the act of writing is solitary, the context that sustains it is social.

  • Twain found a way forward by making friends with other young writers.

  • In 1861, the year Twain went to Nevada, it had more than five thousand.

  • So the twain walked on very lovingly together, Dorothy gazing sadly and fondly at every well-known object in her path.

  • It is used in describing the operation of cutting in twain the animal sacrificed at the ratification of a covenant.

  • The twain immediately started, and roared in unison with their host most tremendously!

  • It is not, as Mark Twain would say, that there is anything the matter with it, Scotch beef is the best in the world.

  • He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.