英语词典 · 单词释义
twenty
英 ['twentɪ] 美 ['twɛnti]
这里集中整理“twenty”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 二十；二十年代
- num. 二十
- adj. 二十的
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复数: twenties;
中文词源
twenty 二十
来自 two,二，-ty,十，词源同 ten.
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. Brian counted to twenty and lifted his binoculars. Elena did the same.
- 布赖恩数到20，举起了双筒望远镜。埃琳娜也照着做了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. By the time he's twenty he'll know everyone worth knowing in Washington.
- 到20岁时，他就会认识华盛顿所有值得认识的人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
- 取120个值计算平均数。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Southbound traffic tailed back for twenty miles on the M5 near Bristol.
- 在布里斯托尔附近的5号高速公路上，南行的车辆排成了绵延20英里的长龙。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.
- 该特工人员为东德做了20多年的间谍。
来自柯林斯例句