单词	twenty
释义	twentytwen‧ty /ˈtwenti/ ●●● S2 W2 number, noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINtwenty Origin: Old English twentig Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Since most of the male students were in their mid to late twenties, spouse hunting for them was a major preoccupation. word sets WORD SETS► Numbers add, verbaddition, nounArabic numeral, nounarithmetic progression, nounbi-, prefixbillion, numbercalculate, verbcalculation, nouncardinal, nouncardinal number, nouncoefficient, nouncommon denominator, nounconstant, nouncube, verbcube root, nounD, noundecimal, noundecimal, adjectivedecimal point, noundemi-, prefixdenominator, noundigit, noundivide, verbdividend, noundivisible, adjectivedivision, noundivisor, noundouble-digit, adjectivedouble figures, nouneight, numbereighteen, numbereighth, adjectiveeighty, numbereleven, numberequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nouneven, adjectiveexponent, nounfactor, nounfactor, verbfactorial, nounfifteen, numberfifth, nounfifty, numberfig., figure, nounfive, numberforty, numberfour, numberfourteen, numberfourth, nounfraction, noungeometric progression, noungross, nounHCF, hundred, numberimproper fraction, nounindivisible, adjectiveinfinity, nouninteger, nounL, nounlogarithm, nounlowest common denominator, nounM, nounmedian, nounmedian, adjectivemillion, numbermultiple, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, noun-nd, suffixnegative, adjectivenine, numbernineteen, numberninety, numberninth, adjectiveNo., nos., nothing, pronounnought, numbernumber, nounnumeral, nounnumerator, nounnumerical, adjectiveO, nounoblique, nounone, numberordinal number, nounpi, nounplot, verbplus, prepositionpoint, nounpositive, adjectiveprime number, nounproduct, nounproper fraction, nounproportion, nounquadr-, prefixquadrillion, numberquadruple, adjectivequotient, noun-rd, suffixroman numeral, nounroot, nounround, adjectivescore, numbersecond, numberserial number, nounset, nounsingle figures, nounsix, numbersixteen, numbersixty, numbersquare, nounsquare, verbsquared, adjectivesquare root, noun-st, suffixsubtract, verbsum, nountake, verbten, numbertenth, adjectivetertiary, adjectivetetra-, prefixthirteen, numberthirty, numberthousand, numberthree, numberthree-quarter, adjectivethreescore, numbertreble, determinertri-, prefixtrillion, numbertwelve, numbertwenty, numbertwice, adverbunit, nounV, nounvulgar fraction, nounwhole number, nounX, nounzero, number Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► the early/mid/late twenties  The photograph was taken in the late twenties. ► early/mid/late twenties  She was in her early twenties when I met her. ► in the low/mid/high twenties  a warm day, with temperatures in the low twenties ► the twentieth  I’m planning to leave on the twentieth (=the 20th day of the month). COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► in your early twenties/forties etc (=aged 20–23, 40–43 etc)· Both men are in their early twenties. ► a two-hour/twenty minute etc nap · At age four, she was still having a two-hour nap every day. ► ten to five/twenty to one etc (=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour) Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the twenties A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties. My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties. Not much money but things were different in the twenties. Richard lived in a single-room occupancy, a holdover from the twenties, when Greenwich Village was filled with writers and artists. That was in the twenties - 1927. The increase in living standards in the twenties was accompanied by a relatively much greater increase in consumer borrowing. The Justice Department files of the twenties and thirties bulge with letters from blacks and whites on the subject. ► be in your twenties Above all, a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties. I felt ashamed and kept the secret, not even sharing it with Pam until we were in our twenties. Just over half the wanted men were in their twenties. My children, Johnson says, are in their twenties and they can't handle all this swinging talk. Police say the dead man was in his twenties. The girls and women who go there are not necessarily teenagers, some may be in their twenties and thirties. Two men, both thought to be in their twenties, broke down the back door of his home in Bletchley. ► in the twenties A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties. Being proved theoretically correct in the twenties and thirties did not lead automatically to the strengthening of the Trotskyist movement. Most likely to suffer are concrete block houses built in the Twenties and Thirties and earlier buildings where shuttered concrete was employed. My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties. Not much money but things were different in the twenties. The increase in living standards in the twenties was accompanied by a relatively much greater increase in consumer borrowing. There was no lack of revolutionary opportunities in the twenties and thirties. This is how black people in the South used to live back in the twenties and thirties. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► twenty-four hour clock► in your middle twenties/thirties etc Among these was a tall firebrand of a patriot in his middle twenties. Owen and the Victoria Centre Owen is in his middle thirties and his working background is in education. While still in his middle twenties, he was offered a teaching position at an Ivy League university. You must be in your middle thirties. ► twenty-twenty vision I hope that the account that follows will seem straight forward-but it is written with the twenty-twenty vision of hindsight. ► twenty-twenty hindsight 1the number 20:  a small village twenty miles from Nairobi I’m nearly twenty (=20 years old).2 the twenties [plural] (also the 20s, the 1920s) the years from 1920 to 1929:  In the twenties the business expanded.the early/mid/late twenties The photograph was taken in the late twenties.3 be in your twenties to be aged between 20 and 29early/mid/late twenties She was in her early twenties when I met her.4in the twenties if the temperature is in the twenties, it is between 20 degrees and 29 degreesin the low/mid/high twenties a warm day, with temperatures in the low twenties5[countable] a piece of paper money that is worth £20 or $20:  I offered the driver a twenty.—twentieth adjective, pronoun:  in the twentieth century her twentieth birthday I’m planning to leave on the twentieth (=the 20th day of the month).
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