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two

/too/US // tu //UK // (tuː) //

二,两个,两,两位

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 1 plus 1.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 2 or II.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
    • : a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with two pips.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to two in number.

Phrases

  • two bits
  • two can play at that game
  • two cents
  • two left feet, have
  • two of a kind
  • two shakes of a lamb's tail
  • two strikes against
  • two strings to one's bow
  • two ways about it
  • two wrongs do not make a right
  • fall between the crack (two stools)
  • for two cents
  • game that two can play
  • goody-two-shoes
  • in two shakes
  • it takes two
  • kill two birds with one stone
  • know all the answers (a thing or two)
  • lesser of two evils
  • like as two peas in a pod
  • no two ways about it
  • of two minds
  • put two and two together
  • that makes two of us
  • thing or two
  • wear two hats

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • Toomey lives here with her husband, Mark, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and their two daughters.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.

  • The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

  • "The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.

  • The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines.