| 单词 | seventy-degree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseventy-degree b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventy of the specified thing’, as in seventy-degree, seventy-mile, etc. ΚΠ 1748 Petition of Creditors to Incorporation of Taylors in Canongate 3 At the Time of the Delivery of the said seventy Pound Bill, he paid no Money. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 705/1 The propelling powers are two seventy-horse steam-engines. 1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 50 From San Diego to Los Angeles, a seventy-mile run along the coast. 1957 Times 30 Aug. 8/6 A runaway 70-ton Army transporter..careered downhill into the village of Carlton. 1996 D. Rushkoff Playing Future ii. 73 In the first extensive seventy-episode series, Earth has already built a vast number of space colonies on the Lagrange points of our planet. 2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. iv. xx. 200 The women were dressed for seventy-degree weather in engineer boots, corduroys, and T-shirts of various gloomy hues. < as lemmas |
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