英语语法:数字大小表示法
学习啦:英语中我们可用哪些数量词去表示数字的大小呢?下面我们一起看看这篇《数字大小表示法》。
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twenty (或 a score of) cordless phones 20 部无绳电话
two scores of Web addresses 40个万维网址
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more than 50;over 50;above 50 五十多
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less than 50;under 50;below 50 五十来(个),不到五十,五十以下
Here came nearly fifty students. 近五十名学生来到了这里。
He was back toward (s) 9 o'clock. 他将近九点回来的。
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ten more days 再 10 天
First add 25 grams of salt to the water. Then add 20 more grams of salt to it. 先加25克盐于水中,然后再加上20克盐。
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a mile or more 一英里或一英里多些
a long mile 一英里还多
a mile or less 一英里或不到一英里
a long hour 足足一小时
a gross 一箩(=12 打或 144 个)
a small gross 120 个,10 打
a dozen 一打;dozens 几十,几打
a score 20; a score of boys 20 个男孩
scores of problems 许多问题
a decade 十; decades 几十
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two hundred odd (或 two odd hundred) girls 二百多个女孩
twenty odd (或 twenty-odd ) ;twenty and odd 二十多,二十有余,不到三十
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from twenty to thirty; twenty to thirty 从二十到三十
between twenty to thirty 二十到三十之间
【注 1】ten(或twenty)to one 和 two to one 是英语惯用语,都作“十之八九”讲,用于对某一事物的估计,表示“几乎”、“必定”等含义。
例如:
It is ten to one that she will be late. 十之八九她要迟到。
【注 2】在体育比赛场合下说“two to five”,就不能理解为2到5,而应理解为2比5。有时口语中 to 还可省略,但说时中间有停顿。
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some thirty feet 大约三十英尺
= around (或<英> round) thirty feet
= about thirty feet
= thirty feet or so
approximately (或 roughly)ten miles
= towards ten miles 接近十英里或约计十英里;
in the neighborhood of thirty kilometers
= thirty kilometers or thereabout(s) 三十千米左右
It is something like four hours.
= It is more like four hours. 大概四个小时。
There are some four or five answers to this question. 这个问题约有四五个答案。
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one hundred and fifty 150
fifty-fifty 各半,平均地
Six and six make (或 makes) twelve. 6+6=12 (= Six plus six makes twelve.)
hundreds of people 好几百人
thousands of people 好几千人,成千上万个人
tons of people 许许多多人
thousands upon thousands of people(或 hundreds of thousands of peole)成千上万个人,许许多多人,无数的人
a hundred and one(或 a thousand and one)other factories 许多其他工厂(注意:若用 one 代替 a ,则变为“101和1001”)
a few hundredths of... ……的百分之几
within a factor of ten 在一个10的数量级范围内
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