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单词 thirty
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Definition of thirty in English:

thirty

cardinal number ˈθəːtiˈθərdi
  • 1The number equivalent to the product of three and ten; ten less than forty; 30.

    thirty or forty years ago
    thirty were hurt
    thirty of her school friends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • About thirty or forty were injured, including more than a dozen elderly persons.
    • It has rained and blown a gale continuously now for over thirty hours!
    • But there is no doubt in my mind that people were happier thirty or forty years ago.
    • He is apt to spend thirty or forty pages on an incident to which an equally good writer might devote three.
    • She normally makes thirty forty different scans from a set of flowers, before she finds an image that interests her.
    • There were thirty or forty people there, which was an excellent turnout.
    • He had no devoted readership and little chance of remaining in print for long, let alone being republished in thirty or forty years' time.
    • We stood, awkwardly for a full thirty seconds, before he seemed to jolt back to life.
    • On checking my bank statement last Friday, I discovered that I had a mere thirty pence to last me until payday at the end of July!
    • The human landscape of Europe has changed radically over the last thirty or so years.
    • However, there is a thirty percent decrease in fluorescence intensity of the polymer.
    • After a good thirty yards she came to a heavy wooden door that was locked.
    • There were four tents in all, three for the thirty male soldiers and one for the ten females.
    • All thirty of them huddled by the fire, hoping to be shielded from the wicked wind.
    • Most of the political philosophy written in the last thirty years has been on this question.
    • These policies established the main outlines of British policy over the following thirty years.
    • The only recourse is for Ed to drive thirty miles to the nearest hospital for help.
    • More people were killed in political violence in those four years, than in the previous thirty.
    • Typical notice periods are thirty, sixty and ninety days, although some are as short as seven days.
    • He had put himself on a fixed budget and couldn't afford to spend more then thirty to forty dollars a day.
    1. 1.1thirties The numbers from thirty to thirty-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.
      a woman in her thirties
      she was a famous actress in the thirties
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yeah, this record is kind of about what happens when you let your adolescence continue into your thirties.
      • He was in his thirties and his death at such a young age cast a pall of sadness over the area.
      • We should be nurturing leadership at a much earlier age and developing skills within people in their thirties.
      • When she returned New Zealand was in the grip of the Depression of the thirties with high unemployment.
      • She's a successful actor who, in her late thirties, became a successful writer.
      • Five men, all aged in their thirties or forties, were arrested at the scene.
      • Like many of the others, it is set in a suburb populated by beautiful women in their late thirties and early forties.
      • He is in his late thirties or early forties and very well put together.
      • A man in his late thirties, who was in the house at the time of the incident, managed to escape without injury.
      • In the thirties she settled down to mystery production, and averaged nearly two novels a year.
      • And wages vary by age - peak decades for earning are our thirties and forties.
      • Younger women, those in their late thirties and early forties, are simply not signing up.
      • The man, who was single and in his thirties, was on his way from Cork delivering a load of timber to a site in Waterford.
      • She did not live in Ireland in the thirties; she lived in Sussex and London and merely visited Eire.
      • These are people who grew up in Ireland in the twenties and thirties and reached maturity in the era of World War Two.
      • Alan introduced me to the boyish owner, a nerdy man in his early thirties.
      • Police are trying to identify the man, aged in his twenties or thirties.
      • We manage to hang on to most of it into our thirties and forties.
      • The woman was described as being aged in her thirties, with mousy brown hair cut in a bowl style and a spotty complexion.
      • They are all thought to be aged in their twenties or thirties.
    2. 1.2 Thirty years old.
      I've got a long way to go before I'm thirty
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I put it behind the desk as requested and followed the doctor, a woman roughly around the age of thirty.
      • At the age of thirty, everything my father had told me turned out to be true.
      • His genius lay in the gaining and exercise of power and by the age of thirty, he acted as effective ruler of England when the King was overseas.
      • By the age of thirty he headed a household that included a wife and daughter.
      • If I could achieve my goal at the age of thirty, imagine what a 10-year-old can achieve.
      • At the age of thirty I was still unsure of myself and I did not even know how to spend a Sunday evening.
      • Men did not normally marry until between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.
      • Turning thirty, I abandoned the faux maturity and started acting as I pleased.
      • Parents over the age of thirty are becoming a larger proportion of first-time parents.
      • Before embarking on a political career in September 1919 at the age of thirty, Adolf Hitler had been a nonentity.
      • However a university regulation prevented anyone below the age of thirty holding a chair.
      • She could have been any age between thirty and fifty, and was not someone to mess with.
      • The average age was about thirty and a lot were travelers backpacking around the world.
      • Many of the men above the age of thirty sat about a table playing a game of whist and the youngest of the children ran about the green grass of the Redford grounds.
      • He was sitting alone on the other end of the couch near the mystery woman who looked around the age of thirty or so.
      • It is a young population, with the majority under the age of thirty.
      • While she had five children by the age of thirty, her daughters are yet to become pregnant.
      • She could have been anywhere from the age of fourteen to the age of thirty.
      • By the age of thirty, however, her siblings were unwilling to walk with her because she was so slow.
      • Male citizens between ages twenty-one and thirty are required to serve in the military for two years.
    3. 1.3 Thirty miles an hour.
      doing about thirty
    4. 1.4 A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by thirty.
    5. 1.5Tennis The second point won by a player in a game.
      with the score at thirty all Kumar hit a low volley into the net

Derivatives

  • thirtieth

  • ordinal number ˈθəːtɪəθˈθərdiəθ
    • 1Constituting number thirty in a sequence; 30th.

      her thirtieth birthday
      Example sentencesExamples
      • his flat is on the thirtieth floor
      • Jordan is completing his thirtieth year of service with the Army's 35th Signal Brigade and reaching his mandatory retirement date.
      • Ranking above Bulgaria were Slovenia, in fourteenth place, Poland in thirtieth place, and Croatia in thirty-third place.
      • The commemorative statue was unveiled on the thirtieth anniversary, in January this year.
      • a thirtieth of a second
    • 2Each of thirty equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

  • thirtyfold

  • adverb & adjectiveˈθəːtɪfəʊldˈθərdiˌfoʊld
    • Since then, transfer fees have multiplied thirtyfold.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The gap between the richest and poorest one-fifths of the world is now about onehundredfold, whereas 30 years ago it was about thirtyfold or fortyfold.
      • When the ice melted, which it did quickly, the sudden reduction in weight caused a thirtyfold increase in volcanic activity, creating the numerous volcanic mountains that now dominate the landscape.
      • A thousandfold increase in the computer time invested in the task has brought a thirtyfold improvement in precision.
      • The result is a thirtyfold increase in the detection sensitivity when the system is operating near the lasing threshold.

Origin

Old English thrītig (see three, -ty2). The spelling with initial thi- is recorded in literature in the 15th century, and has been the prevalent form since the 16th century.

Rhymes

Alberti, Bertie, dirty, flirty, shirty
 
 

Definition of thirty in US English:

thirty

cardinal numberˈTHərdēˈθərdi
  • 1The number equivalent to the product of three and ten; ten less than forty; 30.

    thirty or forty years ago
    thirty were hurt
    thirty of her school friends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On checking my bank statement last Friday, I discovered that I had a mere thirty pence to last me until payday at the end of July!
    • He had put himself on a fixed budget and couldn't afford to spend more then thirty to forty dollars a day.
    • Typical notice periods are thirty, sixty and ninety days, although some are as short as seven days.
    • We stood, awkwardly for a full thirty seconds, before he seemed to jolt back to life.
    • These policies established the main outlines of British policy over the following thirty years.
    • About thirty or forty were injured, including more than a dozen elderly persons.
    • He had no devoted readership and little chance of remaining in print for long, let alone being republished in thirty or forty years' time.
    • All thirty of them huddled by the fire, hoping to be shielded from the wicked wind.
    • There were four tents in all, three for the thirty male soldiers and one for the ten females.
    • However, there is a thirty percent decrease in fluorescence intensity of the polymer.
    • The only recourse is for Ed to drive thirty miles to the nearest hospital for help.
    • It has rained and blown a gale continuously now for over thirty hours!
    • Most of the political philosophy written in the last thirty years has been on this question.
    • But there is no doubt in my mind that people were happier thirty or forty years ago.
    • She normally makes thirty forty different scans from a set of flowers, before she finds an image that interests her.
    • After a good thirty yards she came to a heavy wooden door that was locked.
    • The human landscape of Europe has changed radically over the last thirty or so years.
    • More people were killed in political violence in those four years, than in the previous thirty.
    • He is apt to spend thirty or forty pages on an incident to which an equally good writer might devote three.
    • There were thirty or forty people there, which was an excellent turnout.
    1. 1.1thirties The numbers from thirty to thirty-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.
      a woman in her thirties
      she was a famous actress in the thirties
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Police are trying to identify the man, aged in his twenties or thirties.
      • He is in his late thirties or early forties and very well put together.
      • And wages vary by age - peak decades for earning are our thirties and forties.
      • Five men, all aged in their thirties or forties, were arrested at the scene.
      • The woman was described as being aged in her thirties, with mousy brown hair cut in a bowl style and a spotty complexion.
      • She's a successful actor who, in her late thirties, became a successful writer.
      • We manage to hang on to most of it into our thirties and forties.
      • Yeah, this record is kind of about what happens when you let your adolescence continue into your thirties.
      • These are people who grew up in Ireland in the twenties and thirties and reached maturity in the era of World War Two.
      • She did not live in Ireland in the thirties; she lived in Sussex and London and merely visited Eire.
      • Like many of the others, it is set in a suburb populated by beautiful women in their late thirties and early forties.
      • Alan introduced me to the boyish owner, a nerdy man in his early thirties.
      • In the thirties she settled down to mystery production, and averaged nearly two novels a year.
      • When she returned New Zealand was in the grip of the Depression of the thirties with high unemployment.
      • We should be nurturing leadership at a much earlier age and developing skills within people in their thirties.
      • Younger women, those in their late thirties and early forties, are simply not signing up.
      • A man in his late thirties, who was in the house at the time of the incident, managed to escape without injury.
      • They are all thought to be aged in their twenties or thirties.
      • He was in his thirties and his death at such a young age cast a pall of sadness over the area.
      • The man, who was single and in his thirties, was on his way from Cork delivering a load of timber to a site in Waterford.
    2. 1.2 Thirty years old.
      I've got a long way to go before I'm thirty
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The average age was about thirty and a lot were travelers backpacking around the world.
      • Men did not normally marry until between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.
      • He was sitting alone on the other end of the couch near the mystery woman who looked around the age of thirty or so.
      • Turning thirty, I abandoned the faux maturity and started acting as I pleased.
      • If I could achieve my goal at the age of thirty, imagine what a 10-year-old can achieve.
      • At the age of thirty I was still unsure of myself and I did not even know how to spend a Sunday evening.
      • While she had five children by the age of thirty, her daughters are yet to become pregnant.
      • At the age of thirty, everything my father had told me turned out to be true.
      • However a university regulation prevented anyone below the age of thirty holding a chair.
      • By the age of thirty he headed a household that included a wife and daughter.
      • His genius lay in the gaining and exercise of power and by the age of thirty, he acted as effective ruler of England when the King was overseas.
      • It is a young population, with the majority under the age of thirty.
      • She could have been any age between thirty and fifty, and was not someone to mess with.
      • She could have been anywhere from the age of fourteen to the age of thirty.
      • Parents over the age of thirty are becoming a larger proportion of first-time parents.
      • Before embarking on a political career in September 1919 at the age of thirty, Adolf Hitler had been a nonentity.
      • Many of the men above the age of thirty sat about a table playing a game of whist and the youngest of the children ran about the green grass of the Redford grounds.
      • By the age of thirty, however, her siblings were unwilling to walk with her because she was so slow.
      • Male citizens between ages twenty-one and thirty are required to serve in the military for two years.
      • I put it behind the desk as requested and followed the doctor, a woman roughly around the age of thirty.
    3. 1.3 Thirty miles an hour.
      doing about thirty
    4. 1.4Tennis The second point won by a player in a game.
      with the score at thirty all Kumar hit a low volley into the net

Origin

Old English thrītig (see three, -ty). The spelling with initial thi- is recorded in literature in the 15th century, and has been the prevalent form since the 16th century.

 
 
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