英:[ˌʌmp'ti:nθ]
美:[ˌʌmp'tinθ]
英:[ˌʌmp'ti:nθ]
美:[ˌʌmp'tinθ]
adjective
latest or last in an indefinitely numerous series "No," said James, pulling on his umpteenth cigarette …—Redmond O'Hanlon … the umpteenth wet and dreary day of a peculiar California winter …—Jane Fritsch
Wiping mashed banana out of your toddler's hair for the umpteenth time can be—let's face it—tedious and irritating.—Bonnie Schiedel
umpteen + -th >entry 2
The first known use of umpteenth was in 1892
1 Adrienne stops your hand as you reach for the plastic wrap for the umpteenth muffin.
2 This is, after all, the umpteenth Trump scandal to set the country’s mainstream news outlets on fire while conservatives roll their eyes.
3 So I read the play for the umpteenth time.
4 Exhibit umpteenth of how tough it is to master the genre is the limp “My Very Own British Invasion” at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
5 Vera: That's the umpteenth suggestion I've made which you've turned down.
薇拉: 这不知是我提出的第几个建议了,你全部不接受.
6 I'm also happy for Paolo Maldini, he is really strong and has clinched a Scudetto for the umpteenth time!
我也为马尔蒂尼感到高兴,他真的非常强大,已经无数次获得联赛冠军了!
7 Nobody knows for sure how much will be raised by a renewed clampdown on tax evasion or the umpteenth fiscal amnesty declared by a Berlusconi cabinet (this time for previously undeclared property).
Berlusconi的一位内阁称,通过对偷税的新一轮的打击和第无数次的财政特赦,没有人能够确切的知道将会提高多少。
8 August and I walked her out to her wall, and for the umpteenth time she wrote June and Neil on a scrap of paper and wedged it between the rocks.
9 It didn’t help when the listeria story turned out to be a long and involved way of making the point, for the umpteenth time, that there’s a mole inside Lockhart Gardner.
10 If you are Black you might think you are a friend listening for the umpteenth time to the character’s spiel.
11 After the umpteenth guffaw, I ask what’s so funny: “The gladiators are refusing to fight!”
12 There are hints in Salazar’s Revenge that Nighy’s Davy Jones might be back in part six, which would mark the umpteenth time that a character has been restored to life.
13 It's inevitable that the usual litany of labels and put-downs dominates Jay-Z's concerns; Shawn Carter's wraps-to-riches story is the meta-narrative to all his albums and only fades a little in the umpteenth retelling.
14 Even Ned’s letter curled with the damp as I read it for the umpteenth time.
15 And a choreographer called out for the umpteenth time, “Six, seven, eight!”
16 For the umpteenth time, John McEnroe has stirred up controversy the best way he knows how — with his mouth.
17 This was Ferguson's umpteenth trophy for United.
已经数不清这是福格森为曼联拿到的第几个奖杯了.
18 “But what about when he said, ‘Don’t forget to keep that one safe’?” asked Harry for the umpteenth time.
19 Sure, you’ve felt like this before, maybe watching a Hitchcock movie — “Notorious,” perhaps — for the umpteenth time.
20 Reading “The Great Gatsby” — as I did, for the umpteenth time, last weekend — is like listening to a sad but exquisite piece of music, one that’s over far too soon.
2 第无数个的