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复数:sixths
词根:six
adj.sixteen 十六的,十六个的
sixteenth 第十六的;十六分之一的
sixtieth 第六十的;六十分之一的
adv.sixthly 在第六
n.six 六,六个
sixtieth 第六十;六十分之一
num.six 六,六个
sixteen 十六
sixteenth 第十六;十六分之一
sixtieth 第六十;六十分之一
noun
one that is number six in a series Her office is the sixth on the left. see Table of Numbers
We'll be arriving on the sixth.
one of six equal parts of something
one sixth of the total
a musical interval embracing six diatonic degrees
a tone at this intervalspecifically: submediant
the harmonic combination of two tones a sixth apart
sixth sense第六感,直觉
sixth formn. (英国中学里的)六年级,最高年级
"第五个之后的下一个; 序数词; 被视为整体分成六等份之一的一部分; " 14世纪晚期,取代了16世纪中古英语 sixte(约1200年),源自古英语 syxte,来自 siex(参见 six)。比较古弗里西亚语 sexta,中古荷兰语 seste,古高地德语 sehsto,德语 sechste,哥特语 saihsta。以 -th(1)结尾。相关词汇: Sixthly。
名词意为“六分之一”始于1550年代。作为音乐音调,“比给定音调高或低六度,特别是从音阶底部算起的第六个音调”,始于1590年代。
Sixth sense 意为“超自然的物体感知”,始于1712年:
Then said Peter, That is false; for there is a sixth Sense, that of Prescience : for the other five Senses are capable only of Knowledg ; but the Sixth of Foreknowledg ; which Sense the Prophets had. [William Whitson, "Primitive Christianity Reviv'd," vol. v, London, 1712]
早期它的意思是“刺激,感知性快感”(1690年代,来自斯卡利格尔)。
第六姿势
The first known use of sixth was in the 12th century
sixthnoun
one that is number six in a series see number
the difference in pitch between the first tone and the sixth tone of a scale
sixthnoun
one that is number six in a series see number
the difference in pitch between the first tone and the sixth tone of a scale
1 By my reckoning, it was the sixth conditional offer the government had made for my release in the past ten years.
2 Seventh grade started out even worse than the sixth.
3 Snape had given them so much homework, Harry thought he was likely to be in the sixth year before he finished it.
4 On his fifth or sixth step, he barely missed colliding with his mother, who had just come out of her bedroom.
5 He hadn't been counting really, but he thought this was his sixth.
6 But on the afternoon of the sixth of August, she reads the following lines to Etienne on the davenport in his study: Was it true that Captain Nemo never left the Nautilus?
7 “You don’t look Jewish to me,” I said, thinking of Melissa Miller in sixth grade.
8 In sixth grade, we’d had most of our core classes together.
9 Elementary schools generally end at the sixth grade.
基础教育一般在六年级结束.
10 Before he started sixth grade Nick was Nick again, and all through junior high and high school and college, he proved it.
11 She sat down on one of the made-up twin beds and—it was the fifth or sixth ring—picked up the phone.
12 It seems Principal Wertz called my mother when I failed to come back for the rest of third period, or show up for my fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-period classes.
13 She sent one of the sixth graders in for Maya, who got a loud ovation from the fans.
14 And it wasn’t like there would be some crime ring going around kidnapping kids from any family who had a second grader, a fourth grader, and a sixth grader.
15 Though educated only through the sixth grade, Katherines father was a mathematical whiz who could tell how many board feet a tree would yield just by looking at it.
16 She’d send me right back to Yancy, remind me that I had to try harder, even if this was my sixth school in six years and I was probably going to be kicked out again.
17 “I think I know what the sixth Horcrux is. I wonder what you will say when I confess that I have been curious for a while about the behavior of the snake, Nagini?”
18 It was afternoon, late August, the end of the long, lonely summer after sixth grade.
19 Cassius Clay had extended the invitation as a sixth wedding anniversary present to Malcolm X and Sister Betty, and they had accepted most gratefully.
20 That might have been true in sixth grade.