单词 | the twenties |
释义 | the twenties From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe twentiesthe 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. → twentyExamples from the Corpusthe twenties• That was in the twenties - 1927.• My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties.• Not much money but things were different in the twenties.• A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties.• The increase in living standards in the twenties was accompanied by a relatively much greater increase in consumer borrowing.• Richard lived in a single-room occupancy, a holdover from the twenties, when Greenwich Village was filled with writers and artists. |
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