six
number /sɪks/
/sɪks/
Idioms 六 - There are six cookies left.
还剩六块饼干。 - six of Sweden’s top financial experts
瑞典六名顶尖金融专家 - Ten people were invited but only six turned up.
十个人被邀请了,但只有六个人出现了。 - Can you lend me six dollars?
你能借我六美元吗? - a six-month contract
一份六个月的合约 - Look at page six.
看第六页。 - Six and four is ten.
六加四等于十。 - Three sixes are eighteen.
三个六是十八。 - I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six?
我看不懂你写的东西——这应该是6吗? - The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes (= groups of four or six).
球茎分成四个或六个一组种植。 - We moved to America when I was six (= six years old).
我六岁时,我们搬到了美国。 - Shall we meet at six (= at six o'clock), then?
那我们六点钟见面好吗?
- There are six cookies left.
- noun (in cricket
) a hit that scores six runs (= points)板球 Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2六
词源Old English siex, six, syx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex.
Idioms
at sixes and sevens
- (informal) in a confused state; not well organized
乱七八糟;凌乱 - I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
我还没来得及收拾,所以乱七八糟的。
- I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.
be six feet under
- (informal) to be dead and buried in the ground
入土;在九泉之下
hit/knock somebody for six
- (British English) to affect somebody very deeply
极大地影响某人 - The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six.
这场官司真的让她大吃一惊。
- The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six.
it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other
- (saying) used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choices
Topics Preferences and decisionsc2半斤八两;不相上下