From the word’s history
From Old English fīftēne; five + -teen.
源自古英文 fīftēne，就是 five 加上 -teen。
Fifteen is first of all just a number — the count you reach after fourteen. Because it is a count, it can measure almost anything: fifteen chairs, fifteen minutes, fifteen miles, fifteen years old. The one place it stops being a bare number is on a rugby field, where 'a fifteen' is the fifteen people who make up one full team, so the count has hardened into the name of the group itself.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料2 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。
fifteennum/ˈfɪf.tiːn/
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The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
- The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund.
- She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
fifteennoun/ˈfɪf.tiːn/
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An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.
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