sixteen

释义

num.

十六

n.

十六岁；十六点钟；十六个人[物]；十六的记号

网络

十六步；变位十六步；第十六

词形变化

复数：sixteens

在例句中理解 33 句

1. But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

   亚比雅却渐渐强盛，娶妻妾十四个，生了二十二个儿子，十六个女儿。

2. They were sure that this was the day that the people would choose to send a Republican back to the White House after sixteen years.

   他们坚信这一天将会是16年来位民主党人首次作为总统进军白宫。

3. Continental announced Thursday that it will reduce flights in the United States by sixteen percent during the last three months of the year.

   大陆航空周四时宣布，它将在今年最后的三个月里减少在美国百分之十六的航班。

4. Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.

   当他十六岁在底特律的工作间做事时，制造和安装发动机就成了他的工作。

5. The morbidly passionate tenderness with which his mother received him was by no means gratifying to the sixteen-year-old officer.

   母亲迎接他时那种热情得近乎病态的爱怜，这位十六岁的军官很不高兴。

6. China, almost finished with a second new amphibious-warfare vessel, is in the early stages of a rumored building program of sixteen.

   中国基本上已完成第二代两栖作战舰船的研制工作，而其传言中的“十六号建造方案”目前已进入早期阶段。

7. My dog was a very pleasant and loving companion to me, for no less than sixteen years of my time, and then DY'd, of mere old age.

   我的狗也讨我欢喜，是个可爱的伴侣，跟我不下十六年，后来终于老死了。

8. Well, I used to be size fourteen, but I've put on a bit of weight recently, so may be sixteen.

   额，我过去穿14码，但是我最近重了一点，所以可能要16码。

9. Imagine if it was the sixteen century and swine flu was ravishing the land. The mortality rate would have been innumerable and astounding.

   想像一下，如果甲流是在16世纪侵犯人类，那死亡率将会大得惊人。

10. This period of my life, from the age of fifteen or sixteen to twenty-two or twenty-three, was one of utter disorderliness.

    从十五六岁到二十二三岁，我这一阶段的生活是完全杂乱无序的。

11. The company is headquartered in Beijing and has two branches and sixteen distribution centers all over the country.

    公司总部设在北京，在全国各地拥有两个分公司及16个分销中心。

12. Rooney had been a doubt for the last sixteen, second-leg tie after missing Saturday's Premier League trip to Wolves with a knee injury.

    最近的半个月来，鲁尼一直为膝伤困扰以致错过了上周六对狼队的英超联赛。

13. On the exhibition, two lovely girls of sixteen or seventeen came to me to ask for my signature.

    期间，有两个可爱的十六七岁的小女孩来到我面前，虔诚地向我索要签名。

14. Today, my sixteen year old son told me that he's following his guidance counselor's advice: to do what his hero does for a living.

    今天16岁的儿子说他打算按指导员说的去做：按心目中的英雄那样去谋生。

15. Whatever he or she chooses to call it, a healthy person breaks wind an average of sixteen times a day, and most often when asleep.

    不管人们决定怎样称呼它，健康的人一天平均会放16次屁，大多是在睡觉时放的。

16. Ski jumping was one of sixteen events to be included in the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924.

    1924年在法国夏蒙尼举行的第一届冬季奥运会上，跳高滑雪是当时比赛设置的六个项目之一。

17. These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah-sixteen in all.

    这是拉班给他女儿利亚的婢女悉帕从雅各所生的儿孙，共有十六人。

18. However, aside from being only sixteen, two years below the usual age, the plain fact was he did not study for it.

    但是，这除了因为他当时只有16岁，比正常的入学年龄要小两岁外，直接原因就是他没有为这次考试复习。

19. I began to keep terms with him when I was sixteen years of age.

    从他五岁开始，伊万就是我唯一的网球伙伴。

20. The last century sixty's, at the age of sixteen, I heard that Guizhou is invited to the tutor, luck, the results were bruised, nobody cares.

    上个世纪六十年代，十六岁的我听说贵州有人请塾师，就去碰运气，结果碰得鼻青脸肿、无人理会。

21. Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year.

    因此，午餐四个苏，晚餐十六个苏，他在每天伙食上得花二十个苏；每年便是三百六十五法郎。

22. Only members who have completed sixteen years of age shall have the right to vote and to be elected.

    十六岁以上之社员方有投票及被选资格。

23. Alistair Cockburn once told me that Agility is one position in a universe of sixteen possible positions.

    AlistairCockburn曾经告诉我，敏捷是宇宙中16个可能存在的位置中的一个。

24. Over the course of a semester, you were assigned sixteen 400-page books to read, plus you had to write papers about them.

    在一个学期里，你要被布置阅读十六本每本四百多页的书，另外还得写有关的论文。

25. At sixteen, Jonathan had to leave the Menuhin School since then their academic programme taught students only to O-level standard.

    在十六岁时，乔纳森不得不离开了梅纽因学校，因为这里的教学课程仅仅是教学生到O级水平。

26. When he was sixteen, Hsieh had a terrible electrical1 accident. Both of his arms and the lower part of his right leg were amputated.

    十六岁时，他遭遇一场重大的电击意外，双手和右腿下半部遭到截肢，并造成右眼失明。

27. I was a good student, but until age sixteen was more interested in sports than intellectual activities.

    我一直都是个好学生，直到16岁时相对智力活动开始对运动有了更多的兴趣。

28. For such a tender age of sixteen you don't often see the things in life that are so true.

    对于十六岁，如此年轻的你，很难理解生活的真谛。

29. It was an enormous animal, fifteen or sixteen feet long, and must have weighed from three to four thousand pounds.

    这是一只巨大的动物，长达十五到十六英尺，至少有三千到四千磅重。

30. Even at the age of 30, sixteen-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer believes he is still improving as a tennis player.

    即使在30岁，26次大满贯冠军罗杰费德勒相信作为一名网球选手他一直在进步。

31. But it contained one very interesting piece of data: in 2008, for the first time in sixteen years, the finance and insurance industry shrank.

    但是，这份报告里有一项非常耐人寻味的数据：在2008年，金融保险业出现近十六年来的首次萎缩。

32. sixteen years later

    16年后

33. He moved to London when he was sixteen (= 16 years old ) .

    他 16 岁时搬到了伦敦。