词汇 | fortnight |
释义 | fortnight noun[ Cusually singular ] UKuk /ˈfɔːt.naɪt/ us /ˈfɔːrt.naɪt/ B1 a period of two weeks: 两星期,两周 a fortnight's holiday两周的假期 once a fortnight两周一次 a fortnight ago两周以前 How much would it cost to hire a car for a fortnight? She felt rejuvenated by her fortnight in the Bahamas.在巴哈马群岛度了两周假,她觉得自己变年轻了。 First prize is a fortnight in Barbados and second prize is a weekend in Rome. We spent a fortnight in Rome looking at all the sights. He has secured a fortnight's work experience at a firm of solicitors. Specific periods of time all day Anthropocene around-the-clock British Summer Time BST Cretaceous hour hour-long hr Jurassic lunar month nightlong Oligocene Ordovician Palaeocene Palaeogene Precambrian wk year year-long Related wordfortnightly fortnight | American Dictionaryfortnight noun[ Cusually sing ] Brus/ˈfɔrtˌnɑɪt, ˈfoʊrt-/ a period of two weeks Examples of fortnightfortnight A fortnight later, the correspondent discovered that the man and child were recovering but that another child had died from fever. It is only being released in the interest of public debate and discussion during the much-touted ' organic fortnight '. Each sample prepared was discarded after a fortnight. Recordings were made once every fortnight, on average. While flying time might be 90 minutes, the cost can represent a fortnight's pension income, in approximate terms. This area was visited a fortnight later when the vegetation was springing up. Due to widespread protest, the ban was lifted after a fortnight. But where did this game that spellbinds us for a fortnight come from? The figure clearly reveals that sampling at weekly intervals resulted in less error than sampling on two consecutive nights per fortnight. Every fortnight the musicians meet to plan the programme for the following two weeks. Their daily nausea levels were assessed for a fortnight using a simple questionnaire and an anti-emetic tablet count. Her detailed examination of the scant surviving private sources indicates regular use, roughly once a fortnight. And at present, an unrecorded language is dying somewhere in the world every fortnight or so. Recordings took place every fortnight, on average, hence the two corpora together comprise a total of 77 recording sessions with an approximate duration of 30 minutes each. Of 2,300 4-16 year-olds questioned about their use of libraries, 70% said they use their library once a fortnight or more, and 51 % at least once a week. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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