Word · Frequency #2877
fourteen
在十三之后和十五之前的基数。
- 1.
The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen.
在十三之后和十五之前的基数。
十四；十四个
In use
My little sister is fourteen years old and just started high school.
There are fourteen students in our English class this term.
The bus ride takes about fourteen minutes from my house to the library.
fourteen + noun (plural)
fourteen后接可数名词复数。
There are fourteen students in the class.
班上有十四个学生。
be fourteen (years old)
表示年龄时，years old可省略。
She is fourteen this year.
她今年十四岁了。
Common mistakes
I have forty books.I have fourteen books.
“Fourteen”意为“十四”，而“forty”意为“四十”。中文中“十四”和“四十”发音相近，但英语中这两个词意思不同，需注意区分。
He is the fourteen student in the race.He is the fourteenth student in the race.
“Fourteen”是基数词，表示数量；表示顺序（第十四个）时应使用序数词“fourteenth”。
Connections
Collocations
- fourteen years old
- 十四岁
- My daughter is fourteen years old.我女儿十四岁。
- fourteen days
- 十四天
- The package will arrive in fourteen days.包裹将在十四天后到达。
- fourteen people
- 十四个人
- There were fourteen people at the meeting.会议上有十四个人。
- fourteen dollars
- 十四美元
- The book cost fourteen dollars.这本书花了十四美元。
- fourteen times
- 十四次
- He called me fourteen times yesterday.他昨天给我打了十四次电话。
- fourteen inches
- 十四英寸
Learner notes
Memory Tip
fourteen 由 four (四) 和 teen (类似 ten 十) 组成，记忆为四加十等于十四。
Context & Register
中性，常用于日常计数、年龄、时间等几乎所有场合
Pronunciation & Spelling
All words share the spelling chunk -teen and end with the same sound /tiːn/, but the stressed vowel differs (e.g., 'fourteen' has /ɒ/, 'thirteen' has /ɜː/), so they do not necessarily rhyme.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 5，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.