do a number on
折腾,弄死,杀了人,折磨
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Definitions
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- : a numeral or group of numerals.
- : the sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like: A number of people were hurt in the accident. The number of homeless children in the city has risen alarmingly.
- : a word or symbol, or a combination of words or symbols, used in counting or in noting a total.
- : the particular numeral assigned to an object so as to designate its place in a series: house number; license number.
- : one of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals.
- : a certain collection, company, or quantity not precisely reckoned, but usually considerable or large: I've gone there a number of times.
- : the full count of a collection or company.
- : a collection or company.
- : a quantity of individuals: Their number was more than 20,000.
- : numbers, a considerable amount or quantity; many: Numbers flocked to the city to see the parade.metrical feet; verse.musical periods, measures, or groups of notes.numbers pool. Informal.the figures representing the actual cost, expense, profit, etc.: We won't make a decision until we see the numbers.Obsolete.arithmetic.
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Phrases
- number is up, one's
- a number of
- any number of
- back number
- by the numbers
- crunch numbers
- days are numbered
- do a job (number) on
- get (have) someone's number
- hot number
- in round numbers
- look out for (number one)
- opposite number
- safety in numbers
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Administration officials note that a number of former employees also have praised the president extensively and that the president has overwhelming support in his own party.
By Sunday, that number will rise to nearly 20 states, including Wisconsin, Georgia, Indiana, Virginia and Rhode Island.
Increasing numbers of rank-and-file Democrats are beginning to question that approach.
Baron Cohen spoke to Kardashian West and helped attract a number of other celebrities, Steyer said.
The exact number of people posting the messages was not clear.
“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.
The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.