核心畫面
You can picture 'three' as holding up three fingers: the count that comes right after two — one, two, three. From that bare number, it also stretches to mean things into sets of three.
可以想成豎起三根手指：數到二再往上一個就是三——一、二、三。從這個單純的數字本身，它也延伸去指「把人或東西三個湊成一…更多收起
可以想成豎起三根手指：數到二再往上一個就是三——一、二、三。從這個單純的數字本身，它也延伸去指「把人或東西三個湊成一組」的那種安排。原始詞典資料8 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。
threenum/θɹɪj/
- 1
A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.
- 2
Describing a set or group with three elements.
threenoun/θɹɪj/
- 1
The digit/figure 3.
- In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.
- 2
Anything measuring three units, as length.
- Put all the threes in a separate container.
- 3
A person who is three years old.
- All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
- 4
The playing card featuring three pips.
- 5
Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。