Nine

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

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten .

编辑:奥尔加

• Why, my dear lad, I am even now courting the Nine, and turning Aristophanes into good English verse. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried-- Silence! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Twenty-nine, I see. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Upon this machine 10,010 button holes have been made in nine hours and fifty minutes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o'clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I copied as quickly as I could, but at nine o'clock I had only done nine articles, and it seemed hopeless for me to attempt to catch my train. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• But it was now only about nine in the morning, and he was getting into position on Hancock's right. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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.
• It has struck nine, sir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I never slept more than four or five hours' so that I would awake at nine or ten and read these papers until dinner-time. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Sometimes she writes Percival only, but very seldom--in nine cases out of ten she gives him his title. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Some sailors being aloft in the main-topsail rigging, the captain had ordered them to race down, threatening the hindmost with the cat-of-nine-tails. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The moon rises at half-past eight, and I will walk up to the rectory with you at nine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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