Thousand

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units .

阿方斯校对

• I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It might have been twenty thousand pound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• In 1793 the total export of cotton from the United States was less than ten thousand bales, but by 1860 the export was four million bales. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Here was a new stunner--I had been calculating on four or five thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His securities are bound in one thousand pounds to the society, which they will pay, but we are like to lose the rest. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Five thousand francs is a reason, said the other. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I do not mean that the members weren't deeply touched by the misery of these thousands of women. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They made speeches, and passed resolutions, and put their names down, and printed off thousands of prospectuses. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people on the most frivolous pretexts. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• So, when I am after a chemical result that I have in mind, I may make hundreds or thousands of experiments out of which there may be one that promises results in the right direction. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The strength of a motor may be increased by replacing the singly coiled armature by one closely wound on an iron core; in some armatures there are thousands of turns of wire. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I should think I could very likely get a wife with a few thousands, who would suit both me and my affairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They have a great machine which prints such things by thousands every hour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He then perceived they were soldiers--thousands and tens of thousands; but they made no more noise than a swarm of midges on a summer evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He hung a row of lamps from the trees at Menlo Park, and the thousands who came to see them wondered when they found they could burn day and night for longer than a week. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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