fortnight

英 [ˈfɔːtnaɪt]

美 [ˈfɔːrtnaɪt]

n.  两星期

复数：fortnights　

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牛津词典

noun

• 两星期
  two weeks
  1. a fortnight's holiday
     两周的假期
  2. a fortnight ago
     两星期以前
  3. in a fortnight's time
     在两周的时间内
  4. He's had three accidents in the past fortnight.
     在过去两周他出了三次事故。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 两周;十四天
  Afortnightis a period of two weeks.
  1. I hope to be back in a fortnight.
     我希望在两周内赶回来。

英英释义

noun

• a period of fourteen consecutive days
  1. most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight
  Synonym:two weeks

双语例句

• My aunt's coming in a fortnight's time.
  我的姨妈将在两周后到这儿来。
• I must try and cheer up H.B.as he has had a hell of a fortnight.
  我必须尽可能让H.B。高兴起来他已经经受了两个星期的折磨。
• He was awarded a fortnight's holiday and100 thousand dollars.
  他被奖励一个两星期的假期和10万美元。
• I know, because I've spent the past fortnight obsessively staring at footballers 'feet and making notes.
  我知道这些是因为我在过去的两周中一直紧盯着球员的战靴并做了笔记。
• A fortnight later they came out of the woods.
  两个星期之后他们走出了树林。
• He will visit once a fortnight to see how his new staff are progressing
  他会每两个星期来访一次，看看他的新员工进展如何。
• What I'd like is a fortnight in Greece where I can get away from it all.
  我所希望的是在希腊呆上2个星期，在那里我可以逃避现代生活的各种烦恼。
• I prefer a nominal gross domestic product target, for reasons I explained a fortnight ago.
  而我更倾向一个名义国内生产总值（GDP）目标，原因我在两周前已经解释过了。
• During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey.
  在四月的上半月里，冉阿让作了一次旅行。
• He looked much thinner than when I had seenhim a fortnight before.
  他比我半个月前见到他时瘦了很多。