twenty

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twen·ty /ˈtwenti/ S2 W2 number , noun

1 HMNthe number 20 二十

a small village twenty miles from Nairobi

距内罗毕20英里的一个小村庄

I’m nearly twenty (=20 years old).

我快20岁了。

2 the twenties [plural] (also the 20s, the 1920s) the years from 1920 to 1929 （二十世纪）二十年代

In the twenties the business expanded.

20年代时，业务扩展了。

the early/mid/late twenties

The photograph was taken in the late twenties.

照片是在20年代晚期照的。

Examples from the Corpus

the twenties• That was in the twenties - 1927.• My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties.• Not much money but things were different in the twenties.• The Justice Department files of the twenties and thirties bulge with letters from blacks and whites on the subject.• A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties.• The increase in living standards in the twenties was accompanied by a relatively much greater increase in consumer borrowing.• Richard lived in a single-room occupancy, a holdover from the twenties, when Greenwich Village was filled with writers and artists.

3 be in your twenties to be aged between 20 and 29 29在二十到二十九岁之间，是二十多岁

early/mid/late twenties

She was in her early twenties when I met her.

我遇到她时，她20岁出头。

Examples from the Corpus

be in your twenties• I felt ashamed and kept the secret, not even sharing it with Pam until we were in our twenties.• Just over half the wanted men were in their twenties.• Police say the dead man was in his twenties.• My children, Johnson says, are in their twenties and they can't handle all this swinging talk.• Above all, a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties.• The girls and women who go there are not necessarily teenagers, some may be in their twenties and thirties.• Two men, both thought to be in their twenties, broke down the back door of his home in Bletchley.

4 in the twenties if the temperature is in the twenties, it is between 20 degrees and 29 degrees 〔温度〕二十多度

in the low/mid/high twenties

a warm day, with temperatures in the low twenties

温暖的一天，气温20度多一点

Examples from the Corpus

in the twenties• My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties.• Not much money but things were different in the twenties.• Most likely to suffer are concrete block houses built in the Twenties and Thirties and earlier buildings where shuttered concrete was employed.• Being proved theoretically correct in the twenties and thirties did not lead automatically to the strengthening of the Trotskyist movement.• There was no lack of revolutionary opportunities in the twenties and thirties.• This is how black people in the South used to live back in the twenties and thirties.• A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties.• The increase in living standards in the twenties was accompanied by a relatively much greater increase in consumer borrowing.