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關閉窗口 二、表示度量等的復合形容詞
基數詞可與名詞 (一般用單數) 構成復合形容詞表示時間、度量等，例如：
1. 年齡。如：
The marrow donor is her 14-month-old sister. 骨髓捐獻者是她14個月大的妹妹。
She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. 她被控誘拐一個6個月大的孩子。
I don’t think most nine-year-old children have their teeth brushed. 我想大多數9歲的孩子不會讓別人幫著刷牙。
She didn’t want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning. 她不希望自己14歲的女兒凌晨才回家。
2. 面積 / 體積 / 容積。如：
This model is powered by a 1.8-litre petrol engine. 這一型號用
The 77,000-acre estate contains five of the highest peaks in
3. (持續)時間 / 距離。如：
The seven-hour armed siege at the school ended peacefully. 對這所學校的7 小時武裝包圍平安結束了。
Heavy fighting erupted there today after a two-day ceasefire. 在停火兩天后，今天那里爆發了激烈的戰斗。
NASA has started a 10-year search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 美國航空航天局已經啟動了一個為期10年的尋找外星人的項目。
His salary was obscene for three 40-minute shows a week. 他一周只有3次節目，每次40分鐘，但他的薪水實在高得離譜。
4. 長度 / 深度。如：
The other car had a 3-inch lower driving seat and had its engine mounted further forward. 另外一輛車的駕駛座椅低了3英寸，引擎更加靠前。
A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower. 一個高20英尺的鋼質角錐體將被吊起，安裝在塔的頂部。
5. 價格 / 價值。如：
I’ll need a five-hundred-dollar retainer. 我將收取500美元的定金。
The multibillion-dollar fitness industry rakes in fat profits from our hunger to look good. 數十億美元的健身產業利用我們的愛美之心賺取巨額利潤。
7. 重量。如：
a ten-stone man 一位體重
a five-kilo bag of flour 一個5公斤的面粉袋
He caught a 6.28-pound salmon in the annual fishing derby at
注：序數詞也可以用于復合形容詞。如：
The shop deals in second-hand books. 這家商店經營二手書籍。
Both players both won their first-round matches in aggressive style. 兩名選手均以進攻性風格在他們的第一輪比賽中獲勝。
Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us. 年復一年，他們反復用同樣的三流名演員為我們助興。
The museum has unusually rich holdings of seventeenth-century Italian art. 這個博物館收藏有極為豐富的17世紀意大利藝術品。
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