six
number/sɪks/
/sɪks/
Idioms 六 - There are six cookies left.
还剩下六块饼干。 - six of Sweden’s top financial experts
六位瑞典顶级金融专家 - Ten people were invited but only six turned up.
邀请了十个人,但只有六人到场。 - Can you lend me six dollars?
你能借我六块钱吗? - 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.
三个六就是十八。 - I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six?
我看不懂你写的——这应该是六吗? - The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes (= groups of four or six).
球茎以四个或六个的形式种植(=四个或六个一组)。 - We moved to America when I was six (= six years old).
我六岁时(=六岁)我们搬到了美国。 - Shall we meet at six (= at six o'clock), then?
那么我们六点(=六点钟)见面好吗?
- There are six cookies left.
- noun (in cricket) a hit that scores six runs (= points)
Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2六分打;六分球
Word OriginOld 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.
我还没来得及清理,所以我心乱如麻。
- 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.
诉讼案确实让她损失了六块钱。
- 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