单词详解

There are more than forty applicants for this job.

超过四十个求职者来应征这份工作。

Forty percent of her money is spent on books.

她把百分之四十的钱用来买书。

Now, the battle lasted forty days and forty nights.

战斗持续了四十个日夜。

There were about forty, more or less, regular callers.

有四十个左右是这里的常客。

We waited some forty minutes.

我们等了大约四十分钟。

Forty percent of countries still permit smoking in hospitals and schools.

百分之四十的国家仍允许在医院或学校吸烟。

Forty paces farther we came to the edge of the wood and saw the stockade in front of us.

我们又向前跑了四十几步，来到了树林的边缘，看到木寨就在眼前。

Forty years have passed away since they met.

他们相识至今已40年了。

He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.

他已经受雇于这家公司将近40年了。

2. n.

A. 四十多，四十几(指从40至49的数字) (When you talk about the forties, you are referring to

numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you are in your forties, you are aged between 40 and

49. If the temperature is in the forties, the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees. )

He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie.

他是一个四十多岁的高大男子，穿西装打领带，看上去很精神。

B. 二十世纪四十年代(指从1940年至1949年)

The steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.

钢罐是20世纪40年代时开始使用的。