fortnight

fortnight音标

英 [ˈfɔ:tnaɪt]

美 [ˈfɔ:rtnaɪt]

fortnight基本释义

n.两星期；十四天

fortnight用法及例句

n.(名词)

两星期，两周

十四日

半个月

n.(名词)

[S]两星期,十四天 two weeks

fortnight

noun

1. a period of fourteen consecutive days

e.g. most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight

Synonym: two weeks

1. 两周;十四天A fortnight is a period of two weeks.

e.g. I hope to be back in a fortnight.我希望在两周内赶回来。

1. 两个星期：押金的数目各不相同,一般会是一个月,或者两个星期;租金的预付期限也是很灵活的,多数都会要求提前预付两个星期(fortnight)的租金,或者一个月,也有的是一个星期.

2. 十四日,两星期：former 以前的,从前的;(两者之中的)前者 | ▲fortnight 十四日,两星期 | fortune 财产;运气

3. 两星期,十四天：forth-向前,往外 | fortnight -两星期,十四天 | fortunately -幸运的,幸亏

常用例句

词汇搭配

用作名词(n.)

You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work?你需要休息,为什么不休假两周呢?

The cat had not been fed for a fortnight and was just a bag of bones.那只猫已有两个星期没有喂食了,简直成了皮包骨。

用作名词 (n.)

Monday fortnight两星期前〔后〕的星期一

today fortnight两星期前〔后〕的今天

in a fortnight两星期后

The Islamic year..has less than a fortnight to run.

出自：Financial Times

词源解说

☆ 直接源自古英语的feowertyne，意为十四夜。

临近词

fortnightly tide

fortnightly periods

Fortnightly Conversation

fortnightly periodical

fortitude

fortnightly

fortnightly inequality

fortnightly nutations

fortnightly interval

FORTRAN

相关列句

It's been in the car for more than a fortnight.(它放在车里超过两个星期了。)

In the past fortnight, more than 100 people in the city are reported to have been killed.(据报道，两周之内，该市已有超过100人死亡。)

But after a fortnight using my new vehicle, I'm pleased with the purchase.(不过，在我骑着新车兜了两周之后，我感到这次是对的。)

They came once every six months and lasted a fortnight.(她每六个月来经一次，每次为时两星期。)

The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said.(他们说，整个事件会在两个礼拜之内结束。)

She works six nights every fortnight.(她每两周工作六个晚上。)

These outfits sometimes provision a thousand servers every fortnight.(这些公司有时会在两个星期内增加上千台服务器。)

This is an argument I have heard many times over the past fortnight, and in quite surprising places.(这是我在过去两周，并在相当令人吃惊的地点听到了很多次的一个论点。)

It used to take a fortnight to travel from London to Edingburgh by coach, however you can now travel many times around the world in that time.(过去，坐长途汽车从伦敦到爱丁堡需要两周的时间，但现在你可以在两周里多次环游世界。)

That may be so, but on the evidence of the past fortnight, their suspicion appears justified.(他说得也许没错，过去的两个星期以来，非洲杯证明了他们的猜测。)