| 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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