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单词 thrice
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(θraɪs)
1. adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADV adv, ADVERB noun]
Something that happens thrice happens three times.
[old-fashioned]
They should think not twice, but thrice, before ignoring such advice.
She plays tennis thrice weekly.
2. adverb [ADVERB noun]
You can use thrice to indicate that something is three times the size, value, or intensity of something else.
[old-fashioned]
The metal had been valued at twice or thrice its current price.
...moving at thrice the speed of sound.

thrice in British English

(θraɪs)
adverb
1. 
three times
2. 
in threefold degree
3.  archaic
greatly
Word origin
Old English thrīwa, thrīga; see three

thrice in American English

(θraɪs)
adverb
1. 
three times
2. 
three times as much or as many; threefold; triply
3. 
greatly; highly
Word origin
ME thries < thrie (< OE thriwa, thrice, akin to threo, three) + -(e)s, adv. gen. suffix, after ones (see once)

Examples of 'thrice' in a sentence
thrice

She looked round her thrice, but no one followed her.
Hans Christian Andersen Andersen's Fairy Tales (1874)
 Twice or thrice, went the driver.
James Fergusson KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds (2004)
He came not once, but twice or thrice.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
 Twice or thrice he was going to ask about the marriage question, but his heart failed him.
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
 Twice bitten, thrice shy?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The phone rings once, then twice, then thrice.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
 Twice or thrice in a week, in the earliest morning, the poor mother went for her sins and saw the poor invalid.
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
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