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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

twentyfold

/adjective twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-; adverb twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-/US // adjective ˈtwɛn tiˌfoʊld, ˈtwʌn-; adverb ˈtwɛn tiˈfoʊld, ˈtwʌn- //

二十倍,第二十倍,二十倍于此,二十倍的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
    • : being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : twenty times in amount or degree.

Examples

  • New Orleans has survived at least a dozen great yellow-fever crises since 1812, population meanwhile increasing twentyfold.

  • The seed had brought forth in him tenfold, perhaps twentyfold.

  • It is the vanity of the paleface to hold that he can whip twentyfold his weight in any alien race.

  • By 1917 our export of evaporated, condensed, and dried milk had gone up twentyfold.

  • It has been the fashion of our own age to beat out works into twentyfold and fiftyfold the size of those of Collins.

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