| 单词 | and twenty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasand twenty a. With ellipsis of the noun (which may usually be supplied from the context). So twenty-one, twenty-first, etc. †and twenty, used as an intensive. ΚΠ c961 Æthelwold Rule St. Benet (Gr.) xxii. 47 [Let them sleep] tynum and twentigum on anum inne ætgædere. c1000 Ælfric Genesis xviii. 31 God cwæð: Ne do ic hit, gif þær beoð twentig.] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1692 We mine fader habbet vnder-fon mid þirtti cnihten...Do we awai þane twenti. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16906 A mikel stan, to turn i-nogh had tuent [rhyme monument]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xviii. D Peraduenture there might be twentie founde therin [twētie & Peraduēture in text]. 1605 S. Rowley When you see Me sig. D2 Godyegodnight and twentie syr. 1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. A3v As in one pie twenty may dip their sippits. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 50 In delay there lies no plentie, Then come kisse me sweet and twentie: Youths a stuffe will not endure. View more context for this quotation 1735 S. Johnson tr. J. Lobo Voy. Abyssinia 115 The ordinary Dose is six of these Rinds, and I had devour'd twenty. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 550 The first man to reach the summit was Sir Richard Burton... He went up, as did the succeeding twenty-five (mostly Germans) from Babundi. 1902 O. Wister Virginian xxiii. 270 His thermometer..registered twenty below zero. < as lemmas |
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