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ten-minute man
  1. 1. [American English] [Slang] 善于花言巧语骗人的人
  2. 2. (在利益面前)手急眼快的人;强悍活跃的人

Examples

Ten and ten make twenty.
十加十等于二十。
it's ten times heavier than {or} ten times as heavy as we estimated
比我们预计的要重10倍
One new laptop is equivalent to ten laptops from ten years ago.
一台新款笔记本电脑的运算能力相当于十年前的十台。
To use "hand" for "worker" or "ten sail" for "ten ships" or "steel" for "sword" is to use a synecdochic figure of speech.
用“手”代表”工人”、“十个帆”代表“十艘船”、“钢”代表“剑”都是提喻辞格。
ten miles about
周长10英里
a boy, aged ten years
一个十岁的男孩
Come at ten, not before.
十点来,别早到。
Be back by ten o'clock.
十点以前回来。
to confine a talk to ten minutes
把谈话限制在10分钟以内
to run a race in ten seconds flat
恰好跑10秒

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