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num. 第三, 三分之一

[机] 第三; 第三的




    third
    [ noun ]
    1. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

      2. <noun.quantity>
      it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement
    2. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

      3. <noun.act>
      he is playing third
    3. following the second position in an ordering or series

      4. <noun.linkdef>
      a distant third
      he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment
    4. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it

      5. <noun.communication>
      a simple harmony written in major thirds
    5. the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle

      6. <noun.artifact>
      you shouldn't try to start in third gear
    6. the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball

      7. <noun.artifact>
      he was cut down on a close play at third
    [ adv ]
    1. in the third place

      2. <adv.all>
      third we must consider unemployment
    [ adj ]
    1. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

      2. <adj.all>


    Third \Third\ (th[~e]rd), a. [OE. thirde, AS. [thorn]ridda, fr.
    [thorn]r[=i], [thorn]re['o], three; akin to D. derde third,
    G. dritte, Icel. [thorn]ri[eth]i, Goth. [thorn]ridja, L.
    tertius, Gr. tri`tos, Skr. t[.r]t[=i]ya. See {Three}, and cf.
    {Riding} a jurisdiction, {Tierce}.]
    1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the
    ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. ``The
    third night.'' --Chaucer.

    2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which
    anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.

    {Third estate}.
    (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are
    represented in Parliament by the House of Commons.
    (b) In France, the tiers ['e]tat. See {Tiers ['e]tat}.

    {Third order} (R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic
    order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of
    pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if
    they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they
    become regulars. See {Tertiary}, n., 1.

    {Third person} (Gram.), the person spoken of. See {Person},
    n., 7.

    {Third sound}. (Mus.) See {Third}, n., 3.


    Third \Third\, n.
    1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three
    equal parts into which anything is divided.

    2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.

    3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

    4. pl. (Law) The third part of the estate of a deceased
    husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled
    to enjoy during her life.

    {Major third} (Mus.), an interval of two tones.

    {Minor third} (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half.

    1. Riots erupted for a third night in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with violence centering on the city's mixed-race district.
    2. After some discussion, he said, Mr. Casey suggested Secretary of State George Shultz could approach a third country for the money.
    3. President Reagan earlier had asked federal agencies to cut that time "by at least a third."
    4. The latest quarter's profit compares with $73.3 million, or 69 cents a share, in the 1988 third quarter.
    5. ICI's third - quarter results are due on October 29. Market report, Page 46 Has Louise, the teenage dressmaker from Montmartre who defies her parents to follow her lover into the Paris of the 1900s, lost the power of pulling in the public?
    6. The decisions were released as Gesell took the bench for a third straight day of closed hearings on North's objections to censoring 395 government documents that independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh wants to use as evidence against him.
    7. Harbridge House, a consultant, says only a third of the executives it talked to believe their companies are really encouraging innovation.
    8. "We aren't so foolish as to think someone looking to buy his third BMW will switch to Sterling," says Raymond Ketchledge, president of Austin Rover of North America, which is partly owned by Rover.
    9. Another government report Wednesday showed that new homes sales climbed 5.5 percent in June, the third monthly increase.
    10. Among manufacturers, productivity grew at a 3.8% rate in the third quarter and a 3.7% rate in the second, after falling in the first quarter of 1991 and the last quarter of 1990.
    11. Courier Dispatch Group Inc., Atlanta, said it expects to roughly "break even" in its second quarter, ending Dec. 31, but expects to improve earnings in the third and fourth quarters.
    12. The last launch of a Titan 34D was from Florida on Sept. 2, but sources told The Associated Press it failed to orbit its payload because the rocket's third stage failed to reignite.
    13. American Hoist & Derrick lost 1 1/8 to 9 5/8 after reporting that its earnings for the third quarter ended Aug. 31 dropped sharply from a year earlier.
    14. About a third of the staff stopped work at various times Monday morning but resumed after plant officials explained how the bonus was calculated, he said.
    15. "Has always reminded me of burnt toast," offered a third.
    16. The intrepid Maxwell finally succeeded on the third try, getting the venerable publishing and information services giant for $2.5 billion in early November.
    17. However, activists in the third and smallest Baltic republic of Estonia said a gathering was being organized for Sunday.
    18. The rating of general and refunding mortgage bonds, third mortgage bonds and pollution-control revenue bonds was lowered to triple-C-minus from triple-C.
    19. I want it back.' I suppose some Moslems, reading those words uttered by Mr Salman Rushdie, the novelist, last week in his speech on the third anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa condemning him to death, will have felt a grim satisfaction.
    20. Most short-term interest rates rose yesterday while bond prices fell for the third session in a row.
    21. The 0.42 rise in the Nasdaq Composite Index to 385.01 was the third consecutive advance and the seventh this month.
    22. A book of Kuri's stories, including "Soba," scored third on a June list of national best sellers, and a movie deal is in the making.
    23. The third contender for this contract is a partnership between U.S. firm Parsons Brinckerhoff, Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick Consulting/Engineering of Britain and Hong Kong architectural consultants Wong Tung & Partners Ltd.
    24. Cullinet has reported quarterly losses for more than two years, but Mr. Tamke said that he expects the software maker to "deliver sustained profitability beginning in the third quarter."
    25. Hanson was the third busiest stock option, trading 1,030 contracts.
    26. "We fell slightly short in the second year, and by the third year, it was clear revenue growth couldn't sustain publishing," says Mr. Jennings.
    27. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in its annual review of 108 member countries, said merchandise trade growth slowed to about 3% last year from a 5% increase in 1990, marking the third consecutive year of retarded expansion.
    28. Phinda gets bricks over a third cheaper than from commercial suppliers. Not far from Mazibuko's brickworks, Thomas Nkomo - another reformed poacher -makes charcoal according to a traditional African method.
    29. However, revenues for its energy and utility systems and commercial segments were down for the third quarter.
    30. It was the third time Prime postponed the meeting, which previously had been scheduled for May 12 and June 15.
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