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/ˌfɔːrˈtiːn/ · /ˌfɔːˈtiːn/
the number 14. You use it to count things, to say how long something takes, and also to say how old someone is (he was fourteen = fourteen years old).
十四
核心畫面
A plain quantity: four more than ten, written 14. English builds it the way it sounds — four plus -teen (the '-ten' ending shared by thirteen through nineteen). Once you have the number, it does all the ordinary number jobs: counting things, measuring how long something lasts, and saying someone's age.
可以想成就是「十再加四」這個數量，寫成 14。英文把它拼得跟講的一樣：four 加上 -teen（thirteen …更多收起
可以想成就是「十再加四」這個數量，寫成 14。英文把它拼得跟講的一樣：four 加上 -teen（thirteen 到 nineteen 共用的那個「十」的尾巴）。有了這個數字之後，它就做所有數字都在做的事：數東西、講一段時間有多長、說一個人幾歲。原始詞典資料2 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。
fourteennum/ˈfɔː.tiːn/
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The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen.
- […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
fourteennoun/ˈfɔː.tiːn/
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A group of fourteen items.
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。