four

英[fɔː(r)]
美[fɔːr]

基本释义

num.
四; 四个人(或事物)的一组; 得四分的一击; 四人赛艇的全体成员;四人赛艇

实用例句

to make up a four at tennis

凑成四个人打网球

牛津词典

a coach and four (= four horses)

四匹马拉的四轮大马车

牛津词典

We were crawling around on all fours.

我们匍匐着四处爬行。

牛津词典

Don't let this go further than these four walls (= Don't tell anyone else who is not in the room now) .

走出屋外这事就不要再谈了。

牛津词典

She crawled on all fours over to the window.

她爬到窗边。

Taylor hit 13 fours and batted for 140 minutes.

泰勒打了 13 个 4 分球,击球时间为 140 分钟。

Judith is married with four children.

朱迪丝已经结婚了,有四个孩子。

Thus, the world is divided into two hostile blocks, whose members represent two warring dominions.

因此, 世界是分割成两个敌对的阵营, 各自的成员代表两种敌对的支配.

期刊摘选

The blackbird's nest contained four eggs.

黑鹂巢里有四个蛋.

《简明英汉词典》

Take one tablet every four hours.

隔四小时服一片.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Cranes take from four to seven years to mature before they pair up.

鹤要4至7岁才成熟交配.

《简明英汉词典》

This transistor radio has four small cells.

这台半导体收音机用4节小电池.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

A square has four corners.

正方形有四个角.

《简明英汉词典》

Four plus two equals [ is ] six.

四加二 等于 六.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The Japanese team accumulated four points with one win and two losses.

日本队积四分,一胜两负.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Four days after setting out , while the Titantic was sailing across the icy waters of the North Atlantic, a huge iceberg was suddenly spotted by a lookout.

启航四天后, 泰坦尼克号在穿过北大西洋多冰的海域时, 瞭望员突然发现了一个巨大的冰山.

《用法词典》

In less than four hours my enthusiasm had waned and I rather reproached myself for coming.

不到两个时辰,我早已意兴索然,颇悔此行了.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The post office is four squares above.

邮局在距此四街区的地方.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The room is four metres in breadth.

这个房间4米宽.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war.

战后柏林分成了4个区.

《简明英汉词典》

She is four years senior to me.

她比我大四岁.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

It poured for four days.

下了四天倾盆大雨.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Each bench will seat four persons.

每条凳子能坐四个人.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

It is certain that two and two makes four.

二加二等于四是确定无疑的.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

真题例句

Then, Jeff King, a four-time champion, reported a similar attack.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

There is nothing new about the four objectives.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

That is remarkable, considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

For students, it means they're basically stuck with a four pound paper-weight that they can't sell back.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Four million people get hired every month in the U

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they're still right on the edge financially.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Where they will keep the same four core subject teachers for two years, before moving on to another for 11th and 12th grades.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Her household bills piled up, along with the dishes and dirty laundry, but it took near-constant complaints from her four daughters before she realized she had a problem

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

They don't have time to read a chapter three or four times.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Moreover, Americans eat out nearly four times a week on average.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Within a year, I had to hire another cook and four waitresses.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs had no improvement in over the patients who were only getting usual care from their doctors.

2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Four traits stood out for those that achieved their goals, the researchers report in Public Understanding of Science.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

If all four bills pass as written, they would represent a substantial update of michigan's 2013 law that allowed the testing of self-driving vehicles in limited conditions.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Locked in hot kitchens, Careme created his four "mother sauces".

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The insect-spraying over the weekend left more than 2 million bees dead on the spot in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where four travel-related cases of zika disease have been confirmed in the area.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The researchers examined how the onset of four serious physical illnesses affected marriages.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

There was a woman with four kids.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In an article published in the journal Science, four scholars say racial categories need to be phased out.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years .

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

According to a recent survey of admissions officers, only one in four private colleges say the essay is of "considerable importance" in judging an application.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per year

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

At least four institutions - the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman- have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Even Intel experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time (no phone or e-mail) every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

For instance, why does it have to take four years to earn a diploma?

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

This fall, 16 first-year students and four second-year students at Hartwick enrolled in the school's new three year degree program

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

During January, Hartwick runs a four week course during which students may earn three to four credits on or off campus, including a number of international sites.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

He entered medical school after only three years as did four or five of his classmates.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

My first year of medical school counted as my senior year, which meant I had to take three to four labs a week to get all my sciences in

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

They tested four separate groups at four key stages of Obama's presidential campaign.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The first four contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth left with a new luxury car.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Only four out of the 54 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Then Michael, the eldest of her four adult children suggested they move in with his family.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

He wasn't there long though because his mother passed away just four years later.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

Juan's roommate stopped him four times

出自-2010年6月听力原文

And instead of showing just the typical pair of eggs in a hummingbird nest, she painted four.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

And workers on part-time contracts, who only work four or five hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Another study also found eating a high-fat and high-sugar breakfast each day for as little as four days resulted in problems with learning and memory similar to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and "only three or four said they didn't like having it around".

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

In one experiment, 145 undergraduates completed four unusual uses tasks, each requiring them to list as many uses as possible for everyday object.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It's about four male scientists and a female waitress.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

One study found that three in four respondents yelled at their computer.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

So it's extremely welcome that some government coalitions have started looking into potentially cutting the working week to four days.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The main building is topped with a Georgian tower with four sculptures of the mythical winged horse, the magazine's corporate logo.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

There are four parties conspiring to keep you connected: the tech, your boss, your friends and you.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

There is literally only one job opening for every five unemployed workers, so four out of five unemployed workers have actually no chance of finding a new job.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

When looking at how women are depicted, the study found female characters were four times more likely to be shown in sexy clothing, and nearly four times as likely to be referred to as physically attractive.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Captain Scott had reached the south pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones).

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Every man, woman, and child over ten years of age has on average over four cups a day.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

First they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in queensland before and after hatching.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Four years before, she'd had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

Here's one for just four hundred dollars.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

I rarely had more than four hours of sleep.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

I spoke with our delivery department at about ten this morning, and they said that the chairs will be delivered by four this afternoon.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文

Imagine a child standing on a diving board four feet high and asking himself the question: Should I jump?

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In a study describing the technology, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word "touch" four times using the smart keyboard.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Jeff searched in vain for Rosie in the next four days.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Kunqu society, the classical Chinese theater which combines singing, dancing and acting to literary works by masters of Ming and Qing dynasties, performing introduces four signature plays of Kunqu master Jiqing Zhang to American audiences.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 信息匹配 原文

Oh, here's another one for just over four hundred dollars.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

She grew up in one of jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Sixty-four percent of those survey participants who havens worked remotely would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

So, four days later, he called his friend greg, and the two drove back.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The director, with whom Jack shared a dorm-room in the film academy, has already make four films.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 句子填空 原文

The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The friendship that grew out of the experience of making that film and the sting four years later had its root in the fact that although there was an age difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The vehicle-named the transition – has two seats, four wheels and wings that fold up so it can be driven like a car.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

This tractive four takes you to some of San Francis's most cheerful holiday scenes.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Tina stern received rides from Wilson for all her four years in college, and the trips meant much more to her than just free transportation.

2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

To construct a working still, use a sharp stick or rock to dig a hole four feet across and three feet deep.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

We are supposed to read Chapter Four.

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

When a lion tamer holds a chair n front of the lion's face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four kings and one queen.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Researchers in the late 1960 covered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally and innovatively.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

You can, Mr.Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Eight monumental curving staircases of granite with over 4,000 individually cast bronze balusters are capped by four skylight domes and two stained glass rotundas.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Completed in 1875, the State Department's south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library , Diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary's office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

"Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States," he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position—no matter how much "soft pressure" is put upon them.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students' willingness to expose themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity.

2018年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally and innovatively.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Runners range from four year old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

Adjective
  • 1. being one more than three