不可忽略數(shù)詞基本用法

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數(shù)詞基本用法
    (一)基數(shù)詞的基本用法
    1.定語
    Fifty thousand London dockers are out on strike.
    2.主語
    數(shù)詞作主語,謂語動(dòng)詞用單數(shù)。
    如: Two months is quite a long time.
    Five is an odd number.
    3.賓語或介詞賓語
    How many do you want?——Eight,please.
    The city has a population of four million.
    4.表語
    We are altogether fourteen.
    Five plus seven is twelve.
    5.同位語
    What work are you to assign us three?
    Is there room for us two?
    6.基數(shù)詞+單數(shù)名詞+形容詞構(gòu)成合成形容詞。如:一個(gè)五歲的男孩a five-year-old boy;一座800米長的橋an 800-metre-long bridge;女子400米接力girls‘400-metre relay race.
    7.句型:主語+is +about(大約)/ over =more than(超過)/nearly(接近)+具體數(shù)詞+metre(s)/kilometre(s)/kilo(s)long / high /tall /deep /away等。如:長江長6300公里。
    The Changjiang River is 6,300 kilometres long.
    8.表示“……十”的數(shù)詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式可以用來表示人的歲數(shù)或年代:
    He is in his early thirties.
    He died still in his forties.
    This took place in the 1930s.
    (二)序數(shù)詞的基本用法
    1.序數(shù)詞主要用作定語,前面一般要加定冠詞(或物主代詞):
    Tom is their second son.
    They celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the republic.
    I will never give up,not even on the 1,000th or 10,000th try.
    2.有時(shí)前面可以加一個(gè)不定冠詞來表示“再一”,“又一”這樣的意思:
    We‘ll have to do it a second time.
    Shall I ask him a third time?
    When I sat down,a fourth man rose to speak.
    3.First,second 等有時(shí)可用來表示“第一個(gè)人(批)”“第二個(gè)人”等:
    She was among the first to come and settle in Dujiashan.
    You will be the second to speak.
    4.如果數(shù)字較長,序數(shù)詞總避免使用,而且讀的方法也常常簡(jiǎn)化:
    第201房間:Room 201
    第319面:page 319
    第一拖拉機(jī)廠:the Number I Tractor Works
    第六號(hào)車廂:Carriage No.6
    南京路1490號(hào):1490 Nanjing Road
    電話號(hào)碼55――2347:telephone number :55—2347
    5. 在談編了號(hào)的東西時(shí),我們可以用基數(shù)詞表示順序:
    the first part——part one
    the third squad——squad three
    the twenty-third section——section twenty-three