单词详解

1.       num. 九十，九十个 (the number 90)

例句欣赏

1.  She lived pleasantly to the age of ninety-two. 她愉快地活到92岁。

2.  You were driving at ninety miles an hour. Have anything to say for yourself？

你当时的驾驶时速已达90英里，你有什么要辩解的吗？

3.  He was making ninety pounds a week. 他那时一周挣九十英镑。

4.  His grandfather is ninety years old. 他的祖父九十岁了。

5.  It was decided so she had to stay another ninety days. 已经决定了，她不得不再呆90天。

6.  He is ninety years old, but his mind is sharp. 他虽然90岁了，但头脑还很灵活。

7.  He's ninety, but still he lives on. 他90岁了，还健在。

8.  Ninety-five per cent of the new seedlings have survived. 新栽的树苗95%都已成活。

9.  Oxford Road joins the High Street at an angle of ninety degrees. 牛津路与该大街垂直相交。

10.   Ninety percent of my class is already working on the final project. 我们班百分之九十的同学都已经开始做毕业设计了。

11.   My grandmother is now past ninety. 我祖母已过九十。

12.   We have about ninety yuan. 我们有大约九十元。

13.   He must be going on for ninety. 他准有九十岁了。

14.   She lived to be ninety. 她活到了九十岁。

15.   We've got about ninety coming to the party. 我们约有九十人前来参加晚会。

2. n. (pl)

A. 九十多；九十几 (When you talk about the nineties, you are referring to numbers between 90 and 99.)

By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently. 到这个时候她已经90多岁了，越来越频繁地需要帮助。

B. 九十年代 (指1990年至1999年) (The nineties is the decade between 1990 and 1999.)

These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.

我们步入20世纪90年代时，这些潮流变得更糟了。