⒉ 表示几十年代时。
如:"二十世纪八十年代"写成1980s或1980s,均读作 nineteen eighties,指的是1980至1989年这十年间,需注意的是,年代用文字表示时则不可用-s形式。
如:Great changes took place in the l970s.
History has entered the eighties.
⒊ 表示不确定数目时。
这时要在million,thousand,hundred 等词后加上-s并与of连用,表示大约多至"数以........计",但millions of等前不能再加基数词,却可加some,several等表示不确定数目的修饰语。
如:Millions of other stars are even bigger and brighter than the sun.
Some hundreds of new buildings have been put up here this year.
⒋ 在分数中,当基数词(表示分子)大于one时,序数词(表示分母)要用复数,两者之间用不用连字符号均可。如:Two thirds of the teachers in our school are women.
She has spent four-fifths of her money.
⒌ 当基数词用作可数名词或用于某些固定词组中时,也要用复数。
如:How many sevens are there in forty-nine?
They arrived by twos and three她们三三两两的来了。
数词和名词单数一起作定语,中间用连字符连接
如:a seven-year-old girl 一个七岁的女孩
a two-thousand-word article一篇2千字的文章
基数词和序数词的顺序问题
当基数词和序数词同时修饰一个名词时,序数词一般放在基数词前;但如果序数词充当描绘性修饰时,则放在基数词后。
如:He is one of the first five students.他是前五名的学生之一。
★ 序数词
表示数目顺序的词叫序数词。序数词的构成规则,如下表: