| 单词 | two |
| 释义 | twotwo /tu/ ●●● S2 W1 number 122two o’clock: We’re supposed to be there at two.3a year/week/moment/hour etc. or two informal used when you are giving an amount of time that is not exact: Come and stay with us for a week or two.4in twos in groups of two people or things SYN in pairs: The students work in twos or threes.5somebody’s two cents (worth) informal someone’s opinion or what he or she wants to say about a subject: We all got a chance to put in our two cents on the topic.6put two and two together to guess the meaning of something you have heard or seen: We found the money and the drugs in his room and put two and two together.put two and two together and make five (=hear or see something and guess wrongly about what it means)7that makes two of us spoken used to tell someone that you are in the same situation and feel the same way: “I’d like to live in Hawaii.” “Yeah, that makes two of us.”8two’s company, three’s a crowd used to say that it is better to leave two people alone to spend time with each other9two can play at that game spoken used to say that if someone is going to do something that makes you annoyed or angry, then you will do the same thing to him or her: She wasn’t talking to me, so I decided, “Well, two can play at that game.”10for two cents, I’d... spoken used when you are describing angrily what you would like to do to change a situation: For two cents, I’d take the kids and leave tomorrow.11two bits old-fashioned informal 25 cents, or a coin that is worth this amount of money [Origin: Old English twa] → see also be two of a kind at kind1 (7), be of two minds about something at mind1 (37), it takes two to tango at tango2 (2), no two ways about it at way1 (67) |
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