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Threescore means sixty. It is made of "three" and "score," and a score is twenty, so threescore is three twenties. This is an old way of counting that English used to use a lot, the way we might say "three dozen" for thirty-six today. Nobody counts like this in ordinary modern English — you will not hear a shop assistant say "threescore eggs." You meet the word in three places: the Bible ("threescore years and ten" for a human lifetime of seventy), old poems and speeches, and jokes or writing that is copying that old style on purpose. It is often followed by "and ten" or "and five" to make the numbers in between: threescore and ten = 70. When a modern writer uses it, they usually want the sentence to sound solemn, ancient, or a little grand. So the word tells you as much about the SPEAKER as about the number.
六十(古語說法,「三個二十」)
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。
threescorenoun/ˈθɹiskɔɹ/
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archaicSixty (60).
- And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.
- Words cannot picture her; but all men know That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought Three centuries and threescore years ago
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。