Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
If nine-tenths of this quantity are imported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. 柏拉图.理想国.
Sixty-five per cent of all the telephones in the world are in this country, although it has only five and five-tenths per cent of the world’s population. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Why not (say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine-tenths and losing only one-tenth? 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
But to concentrate nine-tenths of your attention on the subject of dykes is to forget the civilization they are supposed to protect. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
He might be dead in nine-tenths, yet the remaining tenth remained unchanged, till it too was torn apart. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. 亚当·斯密.国富论.