number

[ˈnʌmbə(r)] [ˈnʌmbər]
  • 复数:numbers;
  • 第三人称单数:numbers;
  • 过去式:numbered;
  • 过去分词:numbered;
  • 现在分词:numbering;
  • 例句
    同义词
    同义词解析
    • 以下这些名词均有"总数,总量" 的意思
      quantity书面用词,指事物的总量和总数量,侧重大批计量,含准确测量的意味。
      amount普通用词,与quantity
      近义,但强调整体,指把所有数量、重量及度量归并在一起得出的总数。
      number普通用词,指人或物的数目,强调数的概念。
      sum普通用词,指简单加算的结果。
    词组
    • any number of
      any particular whole quantity of 任意数量
    • by numbers
      following simple instructions identified by numbers or as if identified (逐条)按照指示机械地;死板地
    • someone's/thing's days are numbered
      someone or something will not survive or remain in a position of power or advantage for much longer 某人/某物时日无多,持续不了多久
    • do a number on
      (N. Amer. informal)treat someone badly, typically by deceiving, humiliating, or criticizing them in a calculated and thorough way (北美,非正式)(尤指故意通过欺骗、羞辱、指责)伤害(某人)
    • have someone's number
      (informal)understand a person's real motives or character and thereby gain some advantage (非正式)了解某人的真实动机(或性格)从而获得优势
    • have someone's number on it
      (informal)(of a bomb, bullet, or other missile) destined to find a specified person as its target (非正式)(炸弹、子弹或其他投射武器)注定要击中某人
    • someone's number is up
      (informal)the time has come when someone is doomed to die or suffer some other disaster or setback (非正式)某人的死期(或劫数)已到
    • without number
      too many to count 不计其数
    • by the numbers
      In unison as numbers are called out by a leader 按口令:领头者喊口令时统一行动 In a strict, step-by-step or mechanical way. 机械地:以严格的,一步一步的或机械的方式
    • do a number on&I{【俚语】}
      To defeat, abuse, or humiliate in a calculated and thorough way. 彻底地挫败:精心策划和彻底地挫败、使无用或使丢脸
    • get (someone's) number 或 have (someone's) number
      To determine or know someone's real character or motives. 对某人心中有数:确定或了解某人真正的性格或动机
    • without number 或 beyond number
      Too many to be counted; countless 无数的;数不清的
    英语四级真题
    • When you can quote a specific number like a fifth of the patients were able to quit, that's compelling.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • The new card you receive will come with a new personal identification number ( ' , PIN).
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Although these numbers appear low, it is much higher than if people try without support.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat’s owner Hilario Blandon.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The International Labour Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Unfortunately, many federal and state laws impose post-conviction restrictions on a shockingly large number of Americans, who are prevented from ever fully paying their debt to society.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • In all, more than 45,000 laws and rules serve to exclude vast numbers of people from fully participating in American life.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.
      出自-2015年12月听力原文
    • "Looking at studies that tested concentration, the number of studies showing a benefit was exactly the same as the number that found no benefit," she says.
      2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio riboli of Imperial College.
      2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat's owner hilario Blandon.
      2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • All had the same number of calories over the day, but half had breakfast, while the other half did not.
      2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • Also, certain types of bacteria are extremely harmful, and it takes only a small number to make you sick.
      2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practi
      2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • By 1905, cars began to look like cars of today, with head lamps, windscreen, rubber tyres and number plates.
      2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of
      2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.
      2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
    • five minutes after that, we placed either bacon or bread on the surface for 5, 30 or 60 seconds,and then measured the number of bacteria transferred to the food.
      2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • For example, over the centuries, they have simulated dialogues in a number of ways.
      2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • Graduation requirements specify the number of credits you must earn, the minimum grade point average you must achieve and the distribution of credits you must have from among different departments or fields of study.
      2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • In many European countries,where diesel vehicles have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.
      2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
    • Now, the number of men working in the nursing sector has reached us seven-year low.
      2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
    • On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t
      2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence.
      2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.
      2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.
      2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • The decision involved months of lobbying and coordinated conversations between a number of federal agencies.
      2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • The figures include a number of costs associated with air pollution.
      2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
    • The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.
      2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • The new card you receive will come with a new personal identification number (PIN).
      2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • The overall number of bacteria on the surface mattered more, and this decreased over time after the initial introduction.
      2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • The school has the highest number of kids from low-income families.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • They have special set menus for the week, usually in spring, at a number of different price points.
      2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
    • We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.
      2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    英语六级真题
    • deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • White storks feed on locusts ( ' , 蝗虫) and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions, she says.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into parttime employment in almost all industries has soared.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • In 2009, the number dropped to 9%.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • But while the number of advertisements may have dipped, there has been a rapid spread of eco-labeling.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • According to a new study, the number of advertisements with green messages in mainstream magazines has risen since 1987, and peaked in 2008 at 10.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • This approach has led over time to a fall in smoking with numbers having roughly halved since the 1970s.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Their number climbs to about 40 in the warmer summer months.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • The number of smokers has dropped more sharply than in the UK.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Mental problems can now be found in large numbers of teenagers.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Overall, the total   number of centenarians is going up.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs(横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • What do you actually do and how do you prepare for your job?If sheer numbers provide any proof, Americans’ universities are the envy of the world.
      出自-2015年12月听力原文
    • Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.
      出自-2015年12月听力原文
    • "I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions," she says.
      2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • "It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee.
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • "It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (从事自由职业的) perfor
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.
      2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs (横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.
      2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • According to a new study, the number of advertisements with green messages in mainstream magazines has risen since 1987, and peaked in 2008 at 10.4%.
      2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their
      2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • But after I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists.
      2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
    • David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl
      2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.
      2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.
      2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • I increased the number of people following my accounts by fifteen percent already.
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one.
      2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
    • Not to mention the large number of creative new retailers, like Bonobos, that are blending online and offline experiences in creative ways.
      2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • Officials at the White House announced a new space policy focused on managing the increasing number of satellites that companies and governments are launching into space.
      2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up" double-digit" increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.
      2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • Provided you have not cheated by consulting an atlas, you will notice something rather surprising— the two lists will contain roughly the same number of states, but they will not be identical.
      2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • Ruel says in the 1980s Thailand was able to reduce child undernourishment by recruiting a large number of volunteers to travel the countryside teaching about health and nutrition.
      2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • simultaneously, the number of sick older people grew.
      2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • So the researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the well-being decline.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • That number would be higher for a smartphone or laptop.
      2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.
      2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared.
      2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used
      2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • The number of devices you can talk to is multiplying—first it was your phone, then your car, and now you can tell your kitchen appliances what to do.
      2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
    • There is another explanation that Twenge and her colleagues wanted to address: the impact of the great recession of 2007-2009, which hit a great number of American families and might be affecting adolescents.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • These prior efforts all examined the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • They hope to reduce both the number of components needed in a construction job and their weight一by replacing solid supports with hollow tubes, for example.
      2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
    • This means an unprecedented number of people are surviving longer in conditions requiring expert support.
      2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • Through the 1970, a number of measures sought to improve matters.
      2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.
      2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
    • We believe that the number of people who fit that definition includes the majority of American workers, which prompted us to begin a study of workaholism in the U.S..
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • When college students were reminded of a time they had been excluded in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualitie
      2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
    • While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands on and comprehensive, it's just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms.
      2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • You can do this by learning a set number of lines of poetry at different times of the day and seeing when most lines stick.
      2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • You weren't born with attitudes; rather they are all learned, and this happens in a number of ways.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
    英汉词典释义
    英英词典释义
    • Noun
      1. the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals;
      "he had a number of chores to do""the number of parameters is small""the figure was about a thousand"
      2. a concept of quantity derived from zero and units;
      "every number has a unique position in the sequence"
      3. a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program;
      "he did his act three times every evening""she had a catchy little routine""it was one of the best numbers he ever did"
      4. a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification;
      "she refused to give them her Social Security number"
      5. the number is used in calling a particular telephone;
      "he has an unlisted number"
      6. a symbol used to represent a number;
      "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school"
      7. one of a series published periodically;
      "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom"
      8. a select company of people;
      "I hope to become one of their number before I die"
      9. the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural);
      "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number"
      10. an item of merchandise offered for sale;
      "she preferred the black nylon number""this sweater is an all-wool number"
      11. a clothing measurement;
      "a number 13 shoe"
    • Verb
      1. add up in number or quantity;
      "The bills amounted to $2,000""The bill came to $2,000"
      2. give numbers to;
      "You should number the pages of the thesis"
      3. enumerate;
      "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
      4. put into a group;
      "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
      5. determine the number or amount of;
      "Can you count the books on your shelf?""Count your change"
      6. place a limit on the number of
    行业词典
    • 体育: 号码;数字;
      医学: 数,值:一个符号(如一个数字或一个字),用来表示某种数值或具体的数量;
      数学: 数;
      物理学: 数;
      金融: 质量指数;质量指标;