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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- ten
[tεn]
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1.
num
十
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tens of thousands
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好几万
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- ten
[tεn]
[ten]
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1.
adjective
十（个）的
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He read about ten books in the past six months.
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在过去的半年里，他读了将近十本书。
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2.
noun
十个人（或物）
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Tens of thousands of people were gathered there.
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成千上万的人被召集到那里。
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There were ten.
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这儿有十个。
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3.
noun
以十计数的东西，如：十张纸牌
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4.
noun
[American English]
[Spoken]
以十计数的东西，如：十美元纸币
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5.
noun
十，十个；10；X
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6.
noun
[Slang]
在一到十的范围内的最高级别（常跟a连用）
Collins English-English Dictionary
- ten
[tεn]
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1.
n
ten o'clock ten hours after noon or midnight
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2.
n
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one. It is the base of the decimal number system and the base of the common logarithm - See also number
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3.
n
a numeral, 10, X, etc, representing this number
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4.
n
something representing, represented by, or consisting of ten units, such as a playing card with ten symbols on it
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5.
determiner
amounting to ten
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ten tigers
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6.
determiner
(as pronoun)
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to sell only ten
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7.
determiner
[Etymology]
Old English ten; related to Old Saxon tehan, Old High German zehan, Gothic taihun, Latin decem, Greek deka, Sanskrit dasa
Examples
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Ten and ten make twenty.
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十加十等于二十。
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it's ten times heavier than {or} ten times as heavy as we estimated
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比我们预计的要重10倍
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One new laptop is equivalent to ten laptops from ten years ago.
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一台新款笔记本电脑的运算能力相当于十年前的十台。
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To use "hand" for "worker" or "ten sail" for "ten ships" or "steel" for "sword" is to use a synecdochic figure of speech.
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用“手”代表”工人”、“十个帆”代表“十艘船”、“钢”代表“剑”都是提喻辞格。
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ten miles about
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周长10英里
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a boy, aged ten years
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一个十岁的男孩
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Come at ten, not before.
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十点来，别早到。
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Be back by ten o'clock.
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十点以前回来。
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to confine a talk to ten minutes
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把谈话限制在10分钟以内
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to run a race in ten seconds flat
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恰好跑10秒
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nciku Note
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Financial Characters
大写
dà xiě
Capitalization of Chinese numerals began in the Ming Dynasty to prevent forgeries on official documents. Today they are used in the banking and financial fields. They also appear on today’s RMB.
| Zero | 〇 | 零 | líng | | One | 一 | 壹 | yī | | Two | 二 | 贰 | èr | | Three | 三 | 叁 | sān | | Four | 四 | 肆 | sì | | Five | 五 | 伍 | wǔ | | Six | 六 | 陆 | liù | | Seven | 七 | 柒 | qī | | Eight | 八 | 捌 | bā | | Nine | 九 | 玖 | jiǔ | | Ten | 十 | 拾 | shí | | Hundred | 百 | 佰 | bǎi | | Thousand | 千 | 仟 | qiān |
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