twenty to one
基本解释
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英汉例句
- Twenty to one , it will rain tonight.
二十比一，今晚会下雨。 - Outnumbered twenty to one, the defending Tang forces soon ran out of arrows.
由于敌众我寡，唐朝军队的箭很快就用完了。 - I bet three pounds on a horse running at twenty to one and won sixty pounds!
我用三镑压在赔率为二十比一的马上， 结果赢了六十镑！ - For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa.
- We wanted this to be a twenty shilling coin but now in the market it's trading at twenty-one.
我们希望它是一个值二十先令的硬币,但现在它在市场上以二十一个先令的价值来交换。
耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选 - They started out as a they just minted the amount in one coin which they thought was equivalent to twenty shillings.
他们开始时只将他们认为的,等同于二十先令的数量的金子,铸入一个硬币。
耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选 - Deutschlander says that last year his firm interviewed about a thousand people, and found forty-nine it liked, a ratio of twenty interviewees to one candidate.
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