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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- ten [tεn]
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十
- tens of thousands
- 好几万
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十
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- ten [tεn]
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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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2.
n
ten o'clock ten hours after noon or midnight
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n
a numeral, 10, X, etc, representing this number
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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
- ten tigers
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determiner
(as pronoun)
- to sell only ten
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determiner
[Etymology]
Old English t
e n; related to Old Saxon tehan, Old High German zehan, Gothic taihun, Latin decem, Greek deka, Sanskrit dasa
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1.
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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
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 → heavy
- ten miles about
- 周长10英里 → about
- a boy, aged ten years
- 一个十岁的男孩 → aged
- Come at ten, not before.
- 十点来，别早到。 → before
- Be back by ten o'clock.
- 十点以前回来。 → by
- to confine a talk to ten minutes
- 把谈话限制在10分钟以内 → confine
- to run a race in ten seconds flat
- 恰好跑10秒 → flat
- to gain ten pounds
- 赚得10英镑 → gain
- to get ten years for robbery
- 因抢劫被判处10年徒刑 → get
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