forty
英 [ˈfɔːti]
美 [ˈfɔːrti]
n. 四十; 四十几
Collins.5 / BNC.1350 / COCA.3734
习惯用语
n.
- in your forties
- 40多岁
between the ages of 40 and 49
牛津词典
- 四十
40 - 四十几；四十年代
numbers, years or temperatures from 40 to 49
柯林斯词典
- (数字)40
Fortyis the number 40. - N-PLURAL 四十多，四十几(指从40至49的数字)
When you talk about theforties, you are referring to numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you areinyourforties, you are aged between 40 and 49. If the temperature isin the forties, the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees.- He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie.
他是一个四十多岁的高大男子，穿西装打领带，看上去很精神。
- He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie.
- N-PLURAL 二十世纪四十年代(指从 1940 年至 1949 年)
The fortiesis the decade between 1940 and 1949.- Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.
钢罐是 20 世纪 40 年代时开始使用的。
- Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.
英英释义
noun
adj
双语例句
- After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me
在警队呆了40年后，我对什么都见怪不怪了。 - I was forty, the age when people take stock and change their lives.
我已年届不惑，到了该全面审视自己并改变生活的年龄了。 - Forty eight years of marriage have not dimmed the passion between Bill and Helen.
48年的婚姻生活并没消磨掉比尔和海伦之间的激情。 - About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings.
仍有大约40名囚犯被困在严重损毁的建筑物中。 - Two-way trade between the two countries increased by more than forty per cent last year
去年，两国间的双向贸易增长了40%多。 - Up to forty per cent of the students had overstayed their visas.
高达40%的学生签证均已过期。 - More than forty Conservative MPs rebelled against the government and voted against the bill.
40多个保守党议员反对政府的主张，对法案投了反对票。 - He had reason to be pleased with himself, since he was one of only seven out of forty candidates who were successful.
他有理由沾沾自喜，因为他是40个候选人里仅有的7名成功者之一。 - Wade was going to be paid a salary, instead of by the hour, whether he put in forty hours or not
会按月给韦德开工资，而不是按小时，无论他是否工作了40个小时。 - Now I can look back on the whole tragedy from a distance of forty years.
时隔40年后，现在我可以回顾整个悲剧了。