twenty

释义

n.

二十几；二十年代

num.

二十

网络

二十个；廿；第二十

词形变化

复数：twenties

常用短语 2 组

twenty five

二十五

twenty first

第二十一

在例句中理解 32 句

1. Major oil companies, with BP prominent among them, have spent twenty years trying to demonstrate their social responsibility.

   大型石油公司（尤其是BP）已花费了20年时间，努力彰显其社会责任。

2. Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty soft mattresses.

   现在，他们知道她是一个真正的公主，因为她感觉到了20软床垫下的豌豆。

3. Darwin spent twenty years carefully gathering evidence for his theory and anticipating every objection his critics might have.

   达尔文为他的学说花了二十年时间精心收集证据，并预先准备反驳他的批评者可能会有的每一个反对的理由。

4. Our mother said not to be crazy. "It must be twenty feet deep, " she said.

   母亲说只要不玩得太疯就行。“那儿肯定有二十尺那么深，”她说。

5. At twenty-three, I finally escaped and found myself sailing for a year and a half down the inter-coastal waterway to the Bahamas.

   23岁那年，我终于逃跑了，然后沿着两岸间水道航行了一年半，向南去往巴哈马群岛。

6. The twenty-five-year-old Everett put his head down and, with his helmet, crashed into the other player to tackle him.

   25岁的埃弗雷特低下头用头盔撞对方队员想把对方扭倒。

7. The last twenty minutes of that airplane flight was the only time in my life that I thought the plane would crash.

   在那次旅程的最后二十分钟是我一生中唯一一次以为会堕机，我从没有过这样的经验。

8. She stayed about twenty feet from me for a full twenty five minutes before she was willing to approach me. (I completely ignored her).

   在它敢接近我前，它呆在离我二十英尺开外足足有二十五分钟。

9. The winter vacation only twenty days a year, it had at least five days, including walking home to their relatives, a happy New Year.

   整个寒假只有二十多天，这一个年至少得过五天，这包括走亲戚，去他们家拜年。

10. 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。

11. A backpack filled with food, water and equipment needed for a week will weigh about twenty or twenty-five kilograms.

    一个装上食物，水和一周左右必需品的背包大约有20至25公斤重。

12. By the time she graduated from high school, at the age of twenty, she had scarcely ever heard anyone speak ill of Scientology.

    她20岁从高中毕业之时，她还几乎从来没有听过任何人说山达基有什么不好。

13. It took me twenty years of my fifty-year marriage to discover how unwise it was to attempt to remake my wife.

    在五十年的婚姻生活中，我花了二十年时间弄明白一件事，自己想要改造妻子的想法有多么蠢！

14. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream.

    总之，他们的梦想就是要扑灭这个爆发了二十六年的强大民族。

15. A mother take twenty year to make a man of her boy, and another woman make a fool of him in twenty minute.

    做母亲的要费二十年工夫把她的男孩子养大成一个男子汉，到了别的女人手上，只要二十分钟就会把他化为一条笨汉。

16. Also, if you really just can't fit it in, or make yourself do it, try to go for a twenty-minute walk each day. Or two ten-minute walks.

    如果你真的很难专门挤出锻炼的时间，那也没关系，试着每天散步20分钟吧，或是拆分为每天两次、每次10分钟的散步。

17. They were nearly all composed during the same twenty-five years of his mathematical studies. They fall into several groups.

    它们分几个部分，几乎都是在与他的数学研究相同的25年期间完成写作的。

18. Twenty years later, in a BBC interview, he admitted that he had intentionally acted as if it were a goal, in order to deceive the referee.

    年后，在一次英国广播公司的采访中，他承认他当时有意装作进球了，以此欺骗裁判。

19. Winifred, who had borne the brunt of him for exactly twenty-one years, had never really believed that he would do what he now DID.

    维妮佛梨德受了他整整二十一年的折磨，可是从来不相信他会做出他现在做的事来。

20. and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.

    随后的十八年、二十年中，他一边做点有益的事情，一边享受交友的乐趣，过得倒也挺快活。

21. "You must be ignoring me. I've been trying to sing the same song for the last twenty minutes. "

    “你肯定在无视我的存在。在过去的二十分钟里我一直在试着唱同一首歌。”

22. Well , I am sorry for it. I'll make it up to you twenty different ways , as you please .

    我很抱歉，只要你高兴的话，我会用二十种不同的方式向你表示歉意。

23. So he withdraws into a forest and he said that for twenty five years he meditated.

    然后退隐到森林里，说自己冥想了二十五年。

24. I was twenty-three then and on my own feet but as I sorted through and packed up the belongings in her flat, I felt like a child again.

    我当时23岁，开始了独立生活，但是当我在她的公寓收拾她的物品时，感觉自己又像个孩子。

25. When your attention's not pulled in twenty different directions, you'll be able to more fully be present in the moment and really enjoy it.

    当你的注意力没有被分成20个不同部分时，那一刻你将能更好地展现自己，真正地享受。

26. It is reported that around twenty of the passengers were able to hold onto the front part of the boat.

    据报道，其中二十多名乘客可握住船体前部。

27. the laundress looked on in astonishment , but as she had been promised twenty louis , she made no remark.

    那洗衣女露出惊奇的神色，但因为说好她可以拿到二十个路易，所以并不说话。

28. This learning is a prerequisite to being able to say, twenty years from now, that software development is an exemplar of quality and value.

    只有把这种学习做为一种首要条件，我们才能说二十年后的软件开发是体现质量和价值的典范。

29. Just suppose that ten of the thousands of genetically modified vegetables or fruits sold over the next twenty years produce health damage.

    只是设想一下，在未来二十年中出售的数以万计的转基因蔬菜或是水果所产生的健康危害。

30. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, he could note that UNESCO had joined him in this conviction.

    在二十一世纪之初，他注意到联合国教科文组织已经同他一道对此深信不疑。

31. a small village twenty miles from Nairobi

    距内罗毕20英里的一个小村庄

32. I’m nearly twenty (= 20 years old ) .

    我快20岁了。