twenty to one
基本解释
- 12點40分
英汉例句
- Twenty to one , it will rain tonight.
二十比一，今晚會下雨。 - Outnumbered twenty to one, the defending Tang forces soon ran out of arrows.
由於敵衆我寡，唐朝軍隊的箭很快就用完了。 - I bet three pounds on a horse running at twenty to one and won sixty pounds!
我用三鎊壓在賠率爲二十比一的馬上， 結果贏了六十鎊！ - For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa.
- We wanted this to be a twenty shilling coin but now in the market it's trading at twenty-one.
我們希望它是一個值二十先令的硬幣,但現在它在市場上以二十一個先令的價值來交換。
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選 - They started out as a they just minted the amount in one coin which they thought was equivalent to twenty shillings.
他們開始時衹將他們認爲的,等同於二十先令的數量的金子,鑄入一個硬幣。
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選 - Deutschlander says that last year his firm interviewed about a thousand people, and found forty-nine it liked, a ratio of twenty interviewees to one candidate.
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