单词详解

num. 十七，十七个（人或物） (the number 17)

We covered seventeen miles on foot. 我们步行了十七英里。

Six men have been trapped in a mine for seventeen hours.

有六个人困在矿井里已达十七个小时之久。

I left school at seventeen. 我十七岁时离开了学校。

He lived here until he was seventeen. 他一直在这里生活到十七岁。

Our class is made up of twenty boys and seventeen girls.

我们班是由二十个男生和十七个女生组成的。

Since then, we've signed seventeen contracts with Willshire fashion.

自那时起，我们同威尔榭时装公司已签了十七个合同。

Once during an air raid he marched his seventeen men into the grill of the manila hotel.

在一次空袭期间，他让十七手下人长驱直入“马尼拉旅馆”的餐厅。

His cousin started ice skating at the age of ten and became a skating champion at the age of seventeen.

他表哥十岁的时候开始滑冰，十七的时候成为滑冰冠军。

The national council on economic education has found that seventeen states now require high school students to take a class in economics.

国家经济教育委员会发现，现在有十七个州要求高校学生必须接受经济学课程教育。

In an unprecedented action, the army, on its own initiative, arrested seventeen civilians.

军队竟然擅自逮捕了 17 个平民，这种行为简直是前所未有。

Seventeen congressmen were absent at the Congressional roll call.

议会点名时有 17 名议员缺席。