核心畫面
The number 80 — eight tens. That is the whole word. Everything else on this page is not a new meaning of eighty but the plural form eighties, which takes 80 and stretches it into the ten-year band 80-89: the decade, the age range, the temperature range.
可以想成數線上的 80(八個十)——這個字本身就只到這裡。下面那三個用法都不是 eighty 多出來的意思,而是複數…更多收起
可以想成數線上的 80(八個十)——這個字本身就只到這裡。下面那三個用法都不是 eighty 多出來的意思,而是複數形 eighties 把 80 這一點拉開成 80–89 那一段十格的區間:年份的那十年、年紀的那十歲、氣溫的那十度。看到 eighties,就把「一個點」換成「一整段」。原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
eightynum/ˈeɪ.ti/
- 1
The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXXX and in Arabic numerals as 80.
- Merryday, who was appointed by President Geroge^([sic]) H. W. Bush, said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump, but fails to establish the two counts of defamation alleged.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。