twentyfold
/adjective twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-; adverb twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-/US // adjective ˈtwɛn tiˌfoʊld, ˈtwʌn-; adverb ˈtwɛn tiˈfoʊld, ˈtwʌn- //
二十倍,第二十倍,二十倍于此,二十倍的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- : being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
- : twenty times in amount or degree.
Examples
New Orleans has survived at least a dozen great yellow-fever crises since 1812, population meanwhile increasing twentyfold.
The seed had brought forth in him tenfold, perhaps twentyfold.
It is the vanity of the paleface to hold that he can whip twentyfold his weight in any alien race.
By 1917 our export of evaporated, condensed, and dried milk had gone up twentyfold.
It has been the fashion of our own age to beat out works into twentyfold and fiftyfold the size of those of Collins.
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