four
/fɔː(r)/cardinal number
1- equivalent to the product of two and two; one more than three, or six less than ten;4四;四个：
Francesca's got four brothers
弗朗西斯卡有四个兄弟
it took four of them to lift it
他们四个人一起才把它抬了起来
a four-bedroom house.
四卧室住宅。
(Roman numeral: iv or IV, archaic iiii or IIII. 罗马数字 iv 或 IV,〈古〉iiii 或IIII.)
1.1
- a group or unit of four people or things四个人（或物）一组：
the girls walked in pairs or fours.
女孩子们或两人或四人一组行走。
1.2
- four years old四岁：
I began to teach myself to read at four.
我四岁时自学阅读。
1.3
- four o'clock四点钟：
it's half past four.
四点半。
1.4
- Cricket a hit that reaches the boundary after first striking the ground, scoring four runs【板球】四分的一击。比较SIX.
1.5
- a size of garment or other merchandise denoted by four（衣服等商品的）四号。
1.6
- a playing card or domino with four pips四点的纸牌（或多米诺骨牌）。
1.7
- a four-oared rowing boat or its crew四桨赛艇, 四人划船队：
the British women's coxed four.
英国四桨有舵手赛艇女队。参见FOURS.
短语
the four freedoms
- the four essential human freedoms as proclaimed in a speech to Congress by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear四大自由（富兰克林·德·罗斯福1941年国会演讲中宣布, 即： 言论和表达自由、信仰自由、不虞匮乏的自由和避免恐惧的自由）。
four noble truths
- the four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching（佛教教义精华）四谛。见BUDDHISM.
词源
Old English fēower, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German vier, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin quattuor and Greek tessares.