three
number /θriː/
/θriː/
Idioms - 3
三 - There are only three cookies left.
只剩下三块饼干了。 - three of Sweden’s top financial experts
瑞典三位顶尖金融专家 - Ten people were invited but only three turned up.
十个人被邀请了,但只有三个人出现了。 - Can you lend me three dollars?
你能借我三美元吗? - a three-month contract
三个月的合同 - Look at page three.
看第三页。 - Three and four is seven.
三加四等于七。 - Three threes are nine.
三个三等于九。 - I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a three?
我看不懂你写的东西——这应该是3吗? - The bulbs are planted in threes or fives (= groups of three or five).
这些鳞茎植物是三五株在一起种植的。 - We moved to America when I was three (= three years old).
我三岁时,我们搬到了美国。 - Shall we meet at three (= at three o'clock), then?
那么,我们三点钟见面好吗?
词源Old English thrīe (masculine), thrīo, thrēo (feminine), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch drie and German drei, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tres and Greek treis. - There are only three cookies left.
Idioms
in twos and threes
- two or three at a time; in small numbers
三三两两;稀稀拉拉 - People arrived in twos and threes.
人们三三两两地到了。
- People arrived in twos and threes.
the three Rs
- (old-fashioned) reading, writing and arithmetic, thought to be the most important parts of a child’s education
初等教育三要素(被视为儿童教育最重要部分的读、写、算)