Fourth

(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it.

(noun.) following the third position; number four in a countable series.

(adj.) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; 'the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present' .

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• In the present state of Europe, the share of the landlord seldom exceeds a third, sometimes not a fourth part of the whole produce of the land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We backed a horse named Light For Me that finished fourth in a field of five. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I was in hopes there would be act the fourth, retorted I; but, seriously, what do you understand by a scene? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• On the fourth morning all vanished. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• On the fourth day the fever broke as suddenly as it had come, but it left D'Arnot a shadow of his former self, and very weak. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The Fourth of July was safe, as far as the Mediterranean was concerned. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I am a connoisseur, said he, taking another cigarette from the box--his fourth--and lighting it from the stub of that which he had finished. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• A second followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth, and ultimately the whole barrow was peopled with burdened figures. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The third contented herself with wondering 'what ladies was made of'; and the fourth took the first in a quartette of 'Shameful! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Another packet arrived; she too was detained, and before we sailed a fourth was expected. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• You describe three-fourths of the world, Caroline. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It might be more according to the rights of things, to say Two-thirds; it might be more according to the rights of things, to say Three-fourths. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is estimated that more than 180,000 machines of the self-binding type are now produced yearly, the manufacturers in Chicago alone turning out more than three-fourths of this number. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The photographs on the film, one by three-fourths of an inch in size, leave a margin of five thirty-seconds of an inch on each side. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Half or three-fourths-inch rods with heavy caps at the ends should be sufficient, and are easily put in place before the boards are tacked to the partition. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Jeweler’s gold is usually a mixture of gold and copper in the proportions of three-fourths of pure gold with one-fourth of copper. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As fully three-fourths of the area of their exterior framework consists of windows, an abundance of daylight is secured. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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