Eight

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.

(adj.) being one more than seven .

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• Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The royal crown of France is a circle ornamented with eight fleur-de-lis, from which rise as many quarter-circles closing under a double fleur-de-lis. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The price is eight shillings the quarter of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In 1801 he built his first steam carriage, adapted to carry seven or eight passengers, which was said to have gone off like a bird, but broke down, and was taken to the home of Capt. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I'll come to night at eight o'clock. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• No guns or caissons should be taken with less than eight horses. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o'clock a. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What became of Little Dorrit between the two eights was a mystery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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