nine

英 [naɪn] 美 [naɪn]

解释

※ 提供单词"nine"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

nine 九

来自古英语nigen,来自PIE*newn,九，词源同noon,November.一种观点认为该词与PIE*newos属于同一词源，新的，词源同new,novelty.因为九在古代观念里意味着完美，顶点，同时也意味着新生，新的开始。

nine: nine: [OE] Nine is part of a general Indo- European family of ‘9’-words, which trace their ancestry back to a prehistoric *newn or *enewn. Among the descendants of these are Greek ennéa, Latin novem (source of English November), Irish nóin, Lithuanian devynì, and Russian devyat’. Its Germanic forms *niwun or *nigun have differentiated into German neun, Dutch negen, Swedish nio, Danish ni, and English nine. Noon is so called from being originally the ‘ninth’ hour.
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nine (n.): Old English nigen, from Proto-Germanic *niwun (cognates: Old Saxon nigun, Old Frisian niugun, Old Norse niu, Swedish nio, Middle Dutch neghen, Dutch negen, Old High German niun, German neun, Gothic niun "nine"), from PIE newn "nine" (cognates: Sanskrit nava, Avestan nava, Greek ennea, Albanian nende, Latin novem (with change of -n- to -m- by analogy of septem, decem), Lithuanian devnyi, Old Church Slavonic deveti (the Balto-Slavic forms by dissimilation of -n- to -d-), Old Irish noin, Welsh naw).

Nine to five "the average workday" is attested from 1935. Nine days has been proverbial since 14c. for the time which a wonder or novelty holds attention.

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1. Seventy-nine voted in the affirmative, and none in the negative.: 79人投赞成票，没有人投反对票。

3. Some supernova researchers wondered if it might be just a nine-day wonder.: 有些超新星研究者怀疑，这可能只是昙花一现。

5. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.: 上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。