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twenty-five

/twen-tee-fahyv, twuhn-/US // ˈtwɛn tiˈfaɪv, ˈtwʌn- //

二十五,二十五个,二十五岁,二十五年

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 25 or XXV.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 25 in number.

Examples

  • Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

  • “It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

  • The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

  • The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

  • After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

  • I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

  • Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

  • Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.

  • These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.

  • On four bells there are four times as many changes as on three; that is—four times six changes, which makes Twenty-four.