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单词 fifteenth
释义
fifteenth
ordinal number
uk
/ˌfɪfˈtiːnθ/us
/ˌfɪfˈtiːnθ/
15th written as a word:
第十五（的）
Today isthefifteenth (ofJune).今天是（6月）15日。
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fifteenth
noun[C]
uk
/ˌfɪfˈtiːnθ/us
/ˌfɪfˈtiːnθ/
one of 15equalpartsof something
十五分之一
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(Definition offifteenthfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

fifteenth| American Dictionary

fifteenth
adjective,adverb,noun[C]
us
/fɪfˈtinθ/
(in thepositionof) thenumber15 in aseries; 15th:
Ourteamisrankedfifteenth in thecountry.
[C]Herbirthdayis on the fifteenth of May.
A fifteenth is one of fifteenequalpartsof something.
(Definition offifteenthfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffifteenth

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In his day fourteen-fifteenths of the national income was left in the pockets of the people.
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We never conceived that this rearmament expenditure should be regarded as an expenditure eleven-fifteenths of which represented the total of recurrent expenditure and a mere four-fifteenths was the capital expenditure.
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In the period between the mid-fifteenthcentury and about 1570, this land held at lease was increasingly accumulated by large tenant farmers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There are almost no technological grounds to withhold wax tablets from the hands of composers of polyphony anytime from the eleventh to thefifteenthcentury.
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Singers of thefifteenthcentury faced parallel problems, particularly in the performance of the most intellectually complex music of the day.
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To be exact: 3 of the 7 fourteenth-century sources and 15 of the 31fifteenth-century ones.
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By 1600, the minimum age limits of marital eligibility may have been higher and generally more uniform than they had been in thefifteenthcentury.
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The possibility that thefifteenthcentury brought a new and distinctive attitude to the elderly poor is not addressed.
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In the depressed demographic circumstances of thefifteenthcentury, custom may barely have existed.
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In thefifteenthcentury, when yield ratios were relatively low, the only practical way to generate more income was to accumulate additional acreage.
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Table 2 contrasts male and female patterns of land acquisition, comparing the midfifteenthcentury with the mid sixteenth.
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One is the arrival of keyboard microcomputers, the twentieth-century equivalent of thefifteenth-century printing presses...
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Between the twelfth andfifteenthcentur ies a large number of such texts were written.
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Numerous farms and entire villages were deserted in the fourteenth andfifteenthcenturies, and not one single market town was founded between 1350 and 1400.
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The articles cover the period from thefifteenthcentury to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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