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单词 twenty-twenty
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twenty-twenty
twenty-twenty n. (also 20/20) Ophthalmology the Snellen fraction for normal visual acuity, expressed in feet; colloquially used to denote good eyesight; also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > normal or correct
orthoscopic1853
twenty-twenty1875
orthoptic1886
orthophoric1888
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > perfect
finea1300
perfecta1398
crownedc1405
absolute?a1425
obsolute1522
quintessential1551
absolentc1560
fashionate1593
omniperfect1678
quadriform1679
exemplary1709
perfick1771
puffick1858
twenty-twenty1875
copybook1908
perfecto1941
1875 T. Longmore Man. Instructions Army testing Vision (ed. 2) iii. 46 The 20-feet types are read at 20 feet, the 30-feet types at 30 feet; then V. = 20/20 or 30/30, and the acuteness of vision is normal.
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 35 Twenty twenty, excellent.
1951 E. F. Tait Textbk. Refraction ii. 16 The visual acuity of healthy corrected eyes may be much better or considerably worse than that represented by the 6/6 or 20/20 standard.
1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) iii. 21 Having 20/20 vision without glasses..he..had been appointed a patrolman.
1962 Flight Internat. 81 426/2 Perfect eyesight is denoted as 20/20 vision, and the newest expression in the US air transport business—ruefully coined, we believe, by somebody in Convair—is 20/20 hindsight. Hindsight, of the 20/20 kind, abounds in plenty. But the aviation business is more interested in 20/20 foresight, because it can prevent people from losing a lot of money.
1977 H. Greene FSO-1 ix. 83 We're looking back with twenty-twenty hindsight, now.
1981 P. Turnbull Deep & Crisp & Even ix. 162 He had 20:20 vision... He glimpsed a black shape.
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