oughts

（表示愿望）应当（显示所采取行动正确或明智）( ought的第三人称单数 )

发音

UK /ɔːts/
US /ɑːts/

词形变化

only 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    plural of ought

  2. 2.

    Alternative spelling of aughts (“first decade of a century”).

    仅复数

    2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page xii, And for the oughts—by which I suppose we must identify our new millennium's first decade—projected tonnage figures keep up the mind-boggling pace.