喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Old English endleofan, from Germanic *ainalif 'one left' (one over ten).

源自古英文 endleofan，字面是「剩下一」：數完十還多一個。

Wiktionary

Hold the plain number first: 11 — eleven chairs, eleven years old, eleven o'clock. Everything else eleven can mean grows out of that one count. When a group happens to be exactly eleven people and everyone knows which group is meant, English lets the number itself stand in for the group.

可以先抓住最單純的一個東西：數字 11。十一張椅子、十一歲、十一點——eleven 先是一個數量。之後它多出來的用法，都是從「數到十一」這件事長出來的：當一群人剛好就是十一個，而且大家都知道在講哪一群，英文就乾脆讓這個數字本身代表那群人。

同家族的字

elevens

用法接近

tentwelveeleventhdozenteamsidesquadfirst teamreserves

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

elevennum/ɪˈlɛv.ən/

  • 1

    The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

    • It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.
    • I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven[…]

elevennoun/ɪˈlɛv.ən/

  • 1

    ball-gamescricketgamesA cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.

  • 2

    American-footballball-gamesfootballA football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.

    • Sneeze is well known by all followers of U. of D. athletics for his great work at halfback on the Flyers' eleven for the past four seasons [...]
  • 3

    slangA number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.

  • 4

    slangA number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.

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