fortnight是什么意思？

fortnight

英[ˈfɔ:tnaɪt] 美[ˈfɔrtnaɪt]

• n. 两星期，十四天；

复数：fortnights;

例句

• They were condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at that lonely island. 他们被迫在那个孤岛上待了两个星期。
• He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting. 他在那里住了两星期, 传道, 行圣礼, 教育人, 感化人.
• Strife was internecine during the next fortnight. 在以后两个星期的冲突中我们两败俱伤.
• This work will tie me up for fortnight. 这项工作将使我忙上两个星期.
• I really feel in the pink after a fortnight's holiday. 度了两星期假后,我的确感到身体非常舒适.
• You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work? 你需要休息, 为什么不休假两周 呢 ?
• Got a job bottle-washing at the brewery. I lasted a fortnight. I couldn't stick it... 我找了份在啤酒厂洗瓶子的工作。干了两星期，就再也受不了了。
• He will visit once a fortnight to see how his new staff are progressing... 他会每两个星期来访一次，看看他的新员工进展如何。
• My daughter comes to visit me once every fortnight. 我女儿每两周来看我一次。
• It's the first so-called mercy flight for a fortnight as the Americans have been waiting for enough people to fill a 747 jet. 美国人一直在等人坐满一架747飞机，这便是第一次为期两周的所谓慈善飞行。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  两周;十四天
  A fortnight is a period of two weeks.
  例句
  I hope to be back in a fortnight. 我希望在两周内赶回来。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  两星期, 十四天
  You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work? 你需要休息, 为什么不休假两周呢?

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a period of fourteen consecutive days;
  "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight"