Twentieth

(noun.) position 20 in a countable series of things.

(adj.) coming next after the nineteenth in position .

录入:山姆

• We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But the old faith of the kings, owners, and rulers of the opening twentieth century had faded under the actinic light of scientific criticism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Twentieth Century may give us more light. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The little girl whom Adrian had rescued from utter desertion, during our ride through London on the twentieth of November, died at Auxerre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And so it continued to do to the dawn of the twentieth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For in the first years of the Twentieth Century, Roosevelt spoke for this nation, as few presidents have spoken in our history. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• On the twentieth, there came a note from Mr. Godfrey. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He objected to the parallelism with a twentieth-century crowd. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In her four-and-twentieth year of life, Pleasant was already in her fifth year of this way of trade. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• St. Peter's did not look nearly so large as the capitol, and certainly not a twentieth part as beautiful, from the outside. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But as a fact of immediate politics, as a touchstone applied quickly to all the acts of statecraft in America it belongs to the Twentieth Century. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• On the twentieth of November, Adrian and I rode for the last time through the streets of London. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The tax of the king of Spain upon gold is only one-twentieth part of the standard metal, or five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The luctuosa hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendants to descendants, to the twentieth penny only. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This twentieth part seems to be the whole rent which is paid by the greater part of the gold mines of Chili and Peru. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

编辑:罗达