Fourteen

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one.

(adj.) being one more than thirteen .

校对:伦道夫

• His body is now fourteen years of age, but his soul is already thirty. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• All of this is very reminiscent of the religious and political state of affairs in Greece fourteen centuries earlier. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• But after his death the art became common and in 1794 there were fourteen large ropewalks in that city. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He was then less than fourteen years old. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In this case its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a curious and circuitous nature. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Eleven leaves in the Twemlow; fourteen in company all told. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• After fourteen years of litigation the patent was finally awarded to Berliner. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Then, after fourteen or fifteen centuries, we find the harp, both in a horizontal and an upright position, with its strings played upon by keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Any way,' said Sleary, after putting his lips to his brandy and water, 'ith fourteen month ago, Thquire, thinthe we wath at Chethter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The navy was the only escort and protection for these steamers, all of which in getting below had to run about fourteen miles of batteries. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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