Tenth

(noun.) position ten in a countable series of things.

(adj.) coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position .

黛朵录入

• He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found to be a very great hindrance to improvement. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I saw a great deal of the Duc de Guiche, who used to be called, while in the Tenth Hussars, the Count de Grammont, during my short stay at Brighton. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It was reduced to a tenth only in the course of the present century. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was to the alternating voice that gave out about one-tenth of them--the voice that had wished her good night. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Were you there, Tenente, when they wouldn't attack and they shot every tenth man? 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The insurgents gathered at the H?tel de Ville, and on the tenth of August the Commune launched an attack on the palace of the Tuileries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The dinner, which was given expressly for the officers of the Tenth Hussars, he was obliged to attend. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Have mercy, O Master of the Tenth Cycle! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This tax was originally a half; it soon afterwards fell to a third, then to a fifth, and at last to a tenth, at which late it still continues. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If nine-tenths of this quantity are imported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Sixty-five per cent of all the telephones in the world are in this country, although it has only five and five-tenths per cent of the world’s population. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Why not (say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine-tenths and losing only one-tenth? 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But to concentrate nine-tenths of your attention on the subject of dykes is to forget the civilization they are supposed to protect. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He might be dead in nine-tenths, yet the remaining tenth remained unchanged, till it too was torn apart. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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