"What schoolboy of fourteen is ignorant of this remarkable circumstance"(Macaulay). "十四岁的学生在这件值得注意的事件中会忽略掉什么呢?"(麦考莉)
At the age of fourteen, Tom ran away and went to sea. 汤姆十四岁那年离家出走,去当海员。
fourteen
[ noun ]
the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one
<noun.quantity> [ adj ]
being one more than thirteen
<adj.all>
Fourteen \Four"teen`\, a. [OE. fourtene, feowertene, AS. fe['o]wert[=y]ne, fe['o]wert[=e]ne. See {Four}, and {Ten}, and cf. {Forty}.] Four and ten more; twice seven.
Fourteen \Four"teen`\, n. 1. The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
2. A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
He is a masterful social satirist, to be sure: "The official Commission on Child Care, known to be a pet concern of the prime minister's, had spawned fourteen subcommittees whose task was to make recommendations to the parent body.
Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana told a news conference Wednesday that fourteen civilians had been killed in fighting between his troops and Rwandan exiles who invaded from Uganda on Sept. 30.
One of two men who said they took hostages in The Robesonian newspaper office to draw attention to official corruption pleaded guilty today to fourteen counts of second-degree kidnapping.