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twenty-three

/twen-tee-three, twuhn-/US // ˈtwɛn tiˈθri, ˈtwʌn- //

二十三,第二十三,二十三届,二十三岁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 20 plus 3.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 23 or XXIII.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 23 in number.

Examples

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

  • Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • One of the other cops fired three times and those who were still able to give chase did.

  • So I was looking back at the years, and that really popped out at me, those three years.

  • It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.

  • I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

  • There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.

  • 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.