Word · Frequency #1003
thirties
/ˈθɝːti/
noun
三十
thirties is the plural of thirty.
the number 30
- 1.
A commercial lasting 30 seconds.
持续30秒的广告。
- 2.
the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
十和三的乘积的基数
三十秒的广告；持续30秒的广告。；十和三的乘积的基数
In use
That thirty about the soft drink was the funniest ad of the night.
The director wants to reshoot the thirty because the lighting looks wrong.
They aired two thirties for the same bank during the match.
in one's thirties
She is in her thirties.
她三十多岁。
turn thirty
He will turn thirty next month.
他下个月就三十岁了。
count to thirty
Can you count to thirty?
你能数到三十吗？
Connections
Collocations
- thirty years old
- 三十岁
- She is thirty years old.她三十岁了。
- thirty minutes
- 三十分钟
- The meeting lasted thirty minutes.会议持续了三十分钟。
- thirty dollars
- 三十美元
- The ticket costs thirty dollars.这张票要三十美元。
- thirty people
- 三十个人
- Thirty people attended the workshop.有三十个人参加了研讨会。
- thirty percent
- 百分之三十
- Thirty percent of the students passed the exam.百分之三十的学生通过了考试。
- thirty degrees
- 三十度
Learner notes
Memory Tip
三的英文three去掉e加ty得thirty，与二十twenty类似。
Context & Register
中性，常用于计数、年龄、时间等场合。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Only 'dirty' rhymes with 'thirty' (both end in /ɜːti/). Words like 'thirsty', 'party', 'forty', 'fifty', 'sixty' share the '-ty' spelling but have different vowel or consonant sounds.
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。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.