| 单词 | six-sevenths |
| 释义 | > as lemmassix-sevenths b. Followed by hundred or thousand, or the ordinals of these. Also six-sevenths, six (parts, etc.) out of seven. ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. vii. 38 Pharon hæfde syx hund wigwægna..: þæt wæs syx hund þusenda manna. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 657 Æfter ure Drihtnes acennednesse seox hundred wintra. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 308 In þon castle he dude hende six hundred of his cnihten. a1300 Cursor Mundi 2002 He had sex hundret yeir and an. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67 Cex hundryd, sexcenti. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) 4 He beand bot sex thousand men. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (Numbers) The sixe hundreth, de ses-hondertste. 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xiii, in Poems (new ed.) 59 Sax thousand years are near hand fled. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade i, in Maud & Other Poems 151 Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 13 Six-sevenths of the cases occurred between the ages of 40 and 70. < as lemmas |
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