ninety

英 [ˈnaɪnti]

美 [ˈnaɪnti]

n. 九十九十; 九十年代; 九十岁

Collins.5 / BNC.1948 / COCA.8279

习惯用语

num.

in your nineties

ninety-nine times out of a hundred

九十
90
九十几；九十年代
numbers, years or temperatures from 90 to 99
1. The temperature must be in the nineties today.
  今天的气温肯定有九十多度。

NUM (数字)90
Ninetyis the number 90.
1. It was decided she had to stay another ninety days.
  已经决定了，她不得不再呆90天。
N-PLURAL 九十多;九十几
When you talk about thenineties, you are referring to numbers between 90 and 99. For example, if you areinyournineties, you are aged between 90 and 99. If the temperature isin the nineties, the temperature is between 90 and 99 degrees.
1. By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.
  到这个时候她已经90多岁了，越来越频繁地需要帮助。
N-PLURAL 九十年代(指1990年至1999年)
The ninetiesis the decade between 1990 and 1999.
1. These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.
  我们步入20世纪90年代时，这些潮流变得更糟了。

noun

adj

The work done in the first eight months amounts to ninety percent of the year's quota.
头八个月完成的工程量累积起来，已达到全年任务的百分之九十。
Eighty and ten is ninety.
八十加上十是九十。
More than ninety prisoners have been set free so far under a government amnesty.
目前已有90多名犯人因为一项政府特赦获得自由。
There was now but a hundred and ninety dollars and some change.
现在只有190块和一些零钱了。
These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.
我们步入20世纪90年代时，这些潮流变得更糟了。
Secret investigations have netted ninety staff suspected of fraud and theft
秘密调查已抓获90名涉嫌欺诈盗窃的职员。
They've finished ninety per cent of the work.
他们完成了百分之九十的工作。
Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.
几乎90%的强奸案和暴力侵害案都没有报案。
By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.
到这个时候她已经90多岁了，越来越频繁地需要帮助。
Ninety per cent of lung cancers are caused by smoking.
90%的肺癌是吸烟所致。