小升初英语语法零基础:基数词能否加"s"
基数词在用来表示准确数字的情况下不能加复数后缀"s"
以下基数词可以加复数后缀"s",因为它们表达的都是大概的数字
thousands of / millions of / hundreds and hundreds of / hundreds of thousands of / thousands upon thousands of 成千上万…… 例:There are hundreds of thousands of people in the park
公园里的人有千百个
in twos and threes 三三两两 例:They came home from church by twos and threes
他们三三两两地从教堂回来
at sixes and sevens 乱七八糟 例:His wife was away and the house was at sixes and sevens
他妻子不在,家里乱七八糟的
in one's fifties 在五十多岁时(fifties 前可插入 early, late, mid-, middle) 例:The boys are all in their teens
那些男孩年纪都在十几岁
Jane is only in her early forties
简才刚刚四十出头
She was in her mid-twenties
她有二十五、六岁
He was then in his late seventies
他当时已经快八十岁了
in the 1960s (in the 1960's) 二十世纪六十年代 例:He made acquaintance of her in the 1960s
六十年代他认识了