喜樂美語
  1. 1num/ˌsevənˈtiːn/十七

    The number 17. You use it to count things or people, and also to say how old someone is, as in "she is seventeen".

    seventeen 就是數字 17。它可以想成「seven（七）加在 ten（十）上面」——英文 13 到 19 都是這樣長出來的：thir-teen、four-teen、seven-teen，字尾 -teen 就是那個「十」。除了數東西，英文也直接用 seventeen 講年紀：She is seventeen. 就是「她十七歲」，後面不必再加 years old。

    示範例句 · Example

    There are seventeen students in Mei's art class this year.

    中文翻譯在美的美術課裡今年有十七個學生。

    常見搭配

    • seventeen years old

      十七歲

      aged 17

      My cousin is seventeen years old today.

    • a group of seventeen

      一組十七個（人或東西）

      seventeen people or things together

      A group of seventeen hikers set off before sunrise.

    • the seventeenth

      第十七個；（某月）十七號

      the 17th one, or the 17th day of the month

      I'm planning to leave on the seventeenth.

    • at seventeen

      在十七歲時

      when someone was 17 years old

      At seventeen, she was already teaching younger kids to swim.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Old English seofontīene; seven + -teen.

源自古英文 seofontīene，就是 seven 加上 -teen。

Wiktionary

You can think of it as the number 17 itself — the count you reach after sixteen. Like the other -teen numbers, it is built as "seven + teen", i.e. seven on top of ten, and it does the same everyday jobs any number does: counting things or people (seventeen students), and giving an age (she is seventeen).

可以想成就是「十七」這個數目本身：數到十六再往前一個。它的長相跟其他 -teen 的數字一樣，是「seven + teen」——十上面再加七——所以拼法本身就把算法寫給你看了。用法也就是數字最日常的那幾件事：數東西、數人（seventeen students），還有講年紀（she is seventeen，十七歲）。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料1 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。

seventeennum/ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/

  • 1

    The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

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