ninety
number uk/ˈnaɪn.ti/ us/ˈnaɪn.t̬i/
A2 (数字)90
the number 90
eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-one 89, 90, 91
Ninety percent of the people surveyed were in favour of the new rule. 90%的被访者表示赞成。
- More examples
- He must be ninety if he's still alive.
- So I'm going to be talking to over ninety people, am I? I don't like the sound of that!
- Dad might be nearly ninety but he's still young at heart.
- He got a speeding ticket for driving at ninety miles per hour on the motorway.
- They invited ninety guests to the wedding.
Idiom
ninety-nine times out of a hundredidiom (also nine times out of ten) 几乎总是
almost always
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but sometimes we have problems. 大多数时候一切顺利,但我们偶尔也会出现问题。