- 1第二十（序數）；「twentieth century」二十世紀，歷史課常見用詞
The ordinal form of the number 20 — it describes order or position, like 'the twentieth person in line.' You'll see it most often in 'the twentieth century,' meaning the years from 1900 to 1999, a very common phrase in history.
From the word’s history
From Middle English twentithe, from Old English twēntigoþa; twenty + -eth.
源自古英文 twēntigoþa，相當於 twenty 加 -eth。
組成twenty + -th (the ending that makes ordinal numbers, like fourth, fifth, sixth)
同家族的字
- twentythe base number this word is built from
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twentiethadj/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/
- 1
The ordinal form of the number twenty.
- As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.
- The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
twentiethnoun/ˈtwɛn.ti.əθ/
- 1
A person or thing in the twentieth position.
- 2
One of twenty equal parts of a whole.
- There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
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