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twenty-third

/twen-tee-thurd, twuhn-/US // ˈtwɛn tiˈθɜrd, ˈtwʌn- //

第二十三,第二十三次,第二十三届,第二十三期

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
    • : being one of 23 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a twenty-third part, especially of one.
    • : the twenty-third member of a series.

Examples

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

  • The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.

  • Officials have said the war to reclaim upward of a third of Iraq and a quarter of Syria from ISIS could take years.

  • Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.

  • The third problem is the evidence of corroborating witnesses.

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

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

  • But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.

  • 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.