court card

短语

n. 人头牌(纸牌中之King,Queen和Jack)

词形变化

court cards 复数 court cards

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.

    游戏

    1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever.

  2. 2.

    A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly circa 1894–1902.

    英国 历史

词汇关系

词源

Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court.

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