| 单词 | twenty thousand |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwenty thousand c. As multiplier before a numeral, usually a higher one, as †twenty hundred obsolete (= two thousand), twenty thousand, etc. (often hyperbolically: cf. A. 1d). So twenty-one thousand, etc. ΚΠ c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xiv. 31 Mið tuoentigum ðusendum [Rushw. twoegentigum ðusenda] cymeð to him. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 31 Agen þone þe him agen cymð mid twentigum þusendum. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13388 Twenti hundred cnihten. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvi. 10 I wolde trauaille..þis tree to se twenty hundreth myle. c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 65 Yet hath this brid by twenty thousand foold Leuere in a fforest..Goon ete wormes. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 133 Off the glen Quhettane twenti scoir He drawe as oxin him befoir. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. F If loue haue lent you twentie thousand tongues. View more context for this quotation 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 69 I would pipe and trill, And cheep and twitter twenty million loves. 1916 N.E.D. at Twenty Mod. Twenty thousand pounds sterling. Twenty million dollars. < as lemmas |
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