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twenty-fourth

/twen-tee-fawrth, -fohrth, twuhn-/US // ˈtwɛn tiˈfɔrθ, -ˈfoʊrθ, ˈtwʌn- //

第二十四届,第二十四次,第二十四,第二十四集

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
    • : being one of 24 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a twenty-fourth part, especially of one.
    • : the twenty-fourth member of a series.

Examples

  • A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.

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

  • But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.

  • He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.

  • He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.

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

  • In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

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

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

  • This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.