单词详解

1. num. 五十，五十个 (the number 50)

Let's go fifty-fifty on the dinner check. 我们均摊饭费吧。

The chances of success and failure are fifty-fifty. 成败的可能性各半。

Fifty homes were declared uninhabitable. 有50 处住宅已宣布不宜居住。

He has turned fifty. 他已经五十岁了。

He is a man between fifty and sixty. 他是一个50岁到60岁之间的人。

His age borders on fifty.  他年近50。

It is fifty meters wide. 它有五十米宽。

He retired at the age of fifty. 他五十岁时退休了。

She is capable of typing fifty words per minute. 她每分钟能打五十个字。

The watch costs fifty pounds. 这手表值五十英镑。

What's fifty and fifty? 五十加五十是多少？

2. n.

A. (复数) 五十几 (指 50 到 59 之间的数字) (When you talk about the fifties, you are referring to

numbers between 50 and 59. For example, if you are in your fifties, you are aged between 50 and 59.

If the temperature is in the fifties, the temperature is between 50 and 59 degrees. )

I probably look as if I'm in my fifties rather than my seventies.

我大概看上去像 50 多岁而不是 70 多岁。

He is a man in his fifties. 他是一个五十来岁的人。

B. 二十世纪五十年代 (The fifties is the decade between 1950 and 1959.)

He began performing in the early fifties. 他20世纪50年代初开始从事表演。