umpteen
英 [ʌm(p)'tiːn; 'ʌm(p)tiːn]
美[,ʌmp'tin]
- adj. 无数的；很多的
英英释义
- 1. innumerable but many
实用场景例句
- I've told this story umpteen times.
- 这个故事我已讲了无数次了。
牛津词典
- Umpteen of them all arrived at once.
- 他们大伙都一块儿来了。
牛津词典
- ‘This is crazy, ’ she told herself for the umpteenth time (= she had done it many times before) .
- “这简直疯了！”她已无数次这般地自言自语着。
牛津词典
- He was interrupted by applause umpteen times...
- 他无数次被掌声打断。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He has produced umpteen books, plays and television series.
- 他推出了众多图书、戏剧和电视连续剧作品。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I've seen that film umpteen times.
- 那部影片我已看过多遍了.
期刊摘选
- Umpteen times I gave up when people turned a deaf ear to their wrongs.
- 许多次我心灰意冷因人们屡劝不听.
期刊摘选
- I have umpteen people to visit today.
- 今天我有许多人要拜访.
期刊摘选
- That punk got into umpteen fights.
- 那个混混打斗无数.
辞典例句
- Gone is the opportunity to recover from a bad spell by winning your next umpteen games.
- 随着一场接一场的胜利,而失去却是一种机会,使球队从魔咒中恢复过来.
期刊摘选
- I told him umpteen times, and yet he can't remember.
- 我跟他说过好几百回了, 可是他就是记不住.
期刊摘选
- They recounted umpteen tales of unfair treatment.
- 他们讲述了许许多多不公平待遇的故事.
《简明英汉词典》
- Umpteen of them left.
- 他们许多人都走了.
期刊摘选
- I've told this story umpteen times.
- 这个故事我已讲了无数次了。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- He was interrupted by applause umpteen times.
- 他无数次被掌声打断。
柯林斯例句
- He has produced umpteen books, plays and television series.
- 他推出了众多图书、戏剧和电视连续剧作品。
柯林斯例句
中文词源
umpteen 大量的
改编自umpty, 原为摩斯密码的横线，因听起来如同twenty, thirty, -teen, 十。后在一战时期用于俚语几十个，不确定的许多个，大量的。
双语例句
- 1. He has produced umpteen books, plays and television series.
- 他推出了众多图书、戏剧和电视连续剧作品。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He was interrupted by applause umpteen times.
- 他无数次被掌声打断。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. I've told this story umpteen times.
- 这个故事我已讲了无数次了。
来自《权威词典》
- 4. They recounted umpteen tales of unfair treatment.
- 他们讲述了许许多多不公平待遇的故事.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. That punk got into umpteen fights.
- 那个混混打斗无数.
来自辞典例句
英文词源
- umpteen
- umpteen: [20] Umpteen was derived from an earlier umpty. This began life as a signallers’ slang term for a ‘dash’ in morse code (like its companion iddy for ‘dot’, it was purely fanciful in origin). Its similarity to twenty, thirty, etc led to its being used for an ‘indefinitely large number’, and umpteen simply replaced the -ty suffix with -teen.
- umpteen (adj.)
- 1917, World War I army slang, from umpty + -teen. Related: Umpteenth.