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twenty-four

/twen-tee-fawr, -fohr, twuhn-/US // ˈtwɛn tiˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊr, ˈtwʌn- //

二十四,二十四个,二十四岁,二十四小时

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 24 or XXIV.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 24 in number.

Examples

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

  • There are four photos there of representative presidential candidates.

  • Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.

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

  • The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

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

  • Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.

  • We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.