TWENTY

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Traducere în limba română

twenty I. numeral card., adjectiv, pronume

douăzeci;

twenty-five douăzeci şi cinci;

haven't I told you twenty times that? ... nu ţi-am spus de nu ştiu câte ori / de o sută de ori că...?

twenty II. substantiv

1. douăzeci.

2. the twenties (pl.) a) cifrele între 20 şi 29; b) anii douăzeci, deceniul al 3-lea (al unui secol).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Two cents a word—twenty dollars a thousand; the check must be a hundred dollars.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I know it must be five and twenty, said he, by the time we have been doing it.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He’s always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

So early in life—at three-and-twenty—a period when, if a man chuses a wife, he generally chuses ill.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Nothing of course to speak of—twenty thousand pounds, I think they say—but what is that?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He have always the strength in his hand of twenty men; even we four who gave our strength to Miss Lucy it also is all to him.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I picture Mr. Larkins waiting on me next morning, and saying, “My dear Copperfield, my daughter has told me all. Youth is no objection. Here are twenty thousand pounds. Be happy!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of the return of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had been there for four-and-twenty hours.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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