seven

number
🔊/ˈsevn/
🔊/ˈsevn/
Idioms
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  1. 7
    • There are seven cookies left.还剩下七个饼干。
    • seven of Sweden’s top financial experts瑞典七位顶级金融专家
    • Ten people were invited but only seven turned up.邀请了10个人,但只有7个人出现。
    • Can you lend me seven dollars?你能借给我七美元吗?
    • a seven-month contract七个月的合同
    • Look at page seven.请看第七页。
    • Seven and two is nine.七和二是九。
    • Two sevens are fourteen.二七一十四
    • I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a seven?我看不懂你的著作,这意味着要七点吗?
    • The bulbs are planted in fives or sevens (= groups of five or seven).鳞茎以五分之一或七分之一种植。
    • We moved to America when I was seven (= seven years old).我七岁(七岁)时,我们搬到了美国。
    • Shall we meet at seven (= at seven o'clock), then?那我们可以在七点(七点钟)见面吗?
    Word OriginOld English seofon, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeven and German sieben, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin septem and Greek hepta.
Idioms
at sixes and sevens
  1. (informal) in a confused state; not well organized乱七八糟;凌乱
    • I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.我还没来得及清理,所以我只有六七岁。
the seven-year itch
  1. (informal, humorous) the desire for new sexual experience that is thought to be felt after seven years of marriage七年之痒(婚后七年另觅新欢的欲望)