Four

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.

(adj.) being one more than three .

手打:威尔

• The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I took four lessons, and then I stuck fast in a grammatical bog. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She is four-and-twenty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He left his dead and nearly all his wounded in our hands, and about four hundred prisoners and several hundred horses. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, bless the bed that I lie on; four angels guard-- Hold your tongue. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He showed four fingers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The exhaust valve is then closed, the inlet valve opened, and another cycle of four strokes begins. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Yes: there was a chaise- and-four, a short distance before them, dashing along at full gallop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• George remained four years at a French university, and, applying himself with an unintermitted zeal, obtained a very thorough education. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The reptile is on all fours with the seeding plant in its freedom from the necessity to pass any stage of its life cycle in water. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Some perhaps went on all fours, some chiefly went on their hind legs and clambered with their fore limbs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On ordinary working-days she braided it in threes; on ordinary Sundays in fours; at Maypolings, gipsyings, and the like, she braided it in fives. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Now, therefore, send the Christian dog on all fours, and barefoot, into the holy place to mend the clock, and let him go as an ass! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far outspread to take up the shock. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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