twenty
英 ['twent?]
美['tw?nti]
- n. 二十；二十年代
- num. 二十
- adj. 二十的
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詞態變化
復數:?twenties;
中文詞源
twenty 二十
來自 two,二，-ty,十，詞源同 ten.
英文詞源
- twenty
- twenty: [OE] Twenty is etymologically ‘two tens’. The second syllable, -ty, is related to ten, and twen- goes back to the same source as two, although its precise ancestry is not clear.
=> ten, two - twenty (n.)
- Old English twentig "group of twenty," from twegen "two" (see two) + -tig "group of ten" (see -ty (1)). Cognate with Old Saxon twentig , Old Frisian twintich, Dutch twintig, Old High German zweinzug, German zwanzig. Gothic twai tigjus is even more transparent: literally "two tens."
The card game twenty-one (1790) is from French vingt-et-un (1781). Twenty-twenty hindsight is first recorded 1962, a figurative use of the Snellen fraction for normal visual acuity, expressed in feet. The guessing game of twenty questions is recorded from 1786.
雙語例句
- 1. Brian counted to twenty and lifted his binoculars. Elena did the same.
- 布賴恩數到20，舉起了雙筒望遠鏡。埃琳娜也照著做了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. By the time he's twenty he'll know everyone worth knowing in Washington.
- 到20歲時，他就會認識華盛頓所有值得認識的人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
- 取120個值計算平均數。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Southbound traffic tailed back for twenty miles on the M5 near Bristol.
- 在布里斯托爾附近的5號高速公路上，南行的車輛排成了綿延20英里的長龍。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.
- 該特工人員為東德做了20多年的間諜。
來自柯林斯例句