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/ˌsɪkˈstiːn/
The number 16. It is ten plus six, and it comes after fifteen and before seventeen. You also use it to say how old someone is: "He was sixteen" means he was 16 years old.
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核心畫面
Just the number 16 — ten plus six, sitting between fifteen and seventeen. Same word for counting things and for saying how old someone is.
可以想成數線上的那一格:16,十加六,前面是 fifteen,後面是 seventeen。這個字沒有比喻層,數東西是…更多收起
可以想成數線上的那一格:16,十加六,前面是 fifteen,後面是 seventeen。這個字沒有比喻層,數東西是它,講年齡也是它——He was sixteen 就是「他十六歲」,英文講年紀時常常連 years old 都省掉,只留數字。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。
sixteennum/ˈsɪks.tiːn/
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The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.
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。