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twenty-twenty

/twen-tee-twen-tee, twuhn-tee-twuhn-tee/US // ˈtwɛn tiˈtwɛn ti, ˈtwʌn tiˈtwʌn ti //

二十而立,二十世纪,二十,二十岁

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Ophthalmology. having normal visual acuity.
    • : keenly or acutely perceptive: an opinion based on twenty-twenty hindsight.

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Examples

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

  • Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.

  • A friendly twenty-something woman originally from Toronto said it best.

  • By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.

  • Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.

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