twice

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adv. 两次, 两倍

发音

US /twaɪs/

别名

2ce tweece twise

教材释义与例句

副词

两次；两倍

two times

He was questioned by police twice yesterday.

他昨天被警察审问了两次。

None of our dinner menus are exactly the same twice over .

我们的晚餐菜单从没有完全重样的。

释义与例句

adv. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Two times.

    两次

    两倍

    You should brush your teeth twice a day.

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. (1947, Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1)

  2. 2.

    Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.

词汇关系

副词

同义词 2

double doubly

相关短语

think twice 重新考虑 twice removed twice as less Twice Brewed twice twice twice-exceptional first cousin twice removed once bitten, twice shy 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳 a stopped clock is right twice a day measure twice and cut once a broken clock is right twice a day first cousins twice removed lightning never strikes twice in the same place once a man, twice a child once a woman, twice a child

词源

From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German twiges, twies (“twice”), Middle High German zwies (“twice”). Equivalent to twi- (“(in) two; both”) + -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- and dis-, borrowed from Indo-European cognates.

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