【third音标】 英[θɜ:d] 美[θɜ:rd]
【单词释义】 third是什么意思：
n.第三；三分之一；第三档
adj.第三的；三分之一的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] thirds
【third形近词/近似词】
bird n.鸟，禽 v.捕鸟，打鸟
【单词例句】
◇ But Marguerite did not answer him; she was offended that he should call her a woman when she was only a girl; and there is a great difference. He asked her a second time, and then a third; but she remained dumb, and answered not a word.
可是“玛加丽特”不回答他。她很生气，因为她还不过是一个少女，而他却已把她称为“女人”；这究竟有一个分别呀。他问了第二次，第三次。
---- The Butterfly
◇ The one gave her virtue, the second one beauty, the third one wealth, and so on with everything that one could wish for on earth.
女巫师们一个送给她美德，另一个送给她美貌，还有一个送给她富有，她们把世人所希望的，世上所有的优点和期盼都送给了她。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ Third, she writes thorough stories ahead of the deadline and submits it to the senior chief editor, who polishes and approves every section.
然后，她在截稿期限前写出详尽的报道，呈交给高级主编，由他对每个部分做润色和批准；
◇ In Great Britain, the third season of the year usually has only one name: autumn.
在英国，一年的第三个季节通常都只有一个名字：autumn。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ The star is 40% cooler than our sun and only about a third of the sun's mass and size. A study describing the three planets was published this week in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
这颗恒星的温度比太阳低40%，质量和体积只有太阳的三分之一左右。一项描述这三颗行星的研究本周发表在《天文学与天体物理学》期刊上。
---- NASA finds potentially habitable super-Earth
◇ It had been lovely to spend extra time with her 21-month-old son, but by the end of the third day off she was shattered.
能够和21个月大的儿子共度更多时光本来是件很好的事，但是到第三天快结束时她感觉自己要崩溃了。
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ It gets worse. Almost a third of all plastic packaging escapes collection systems and ends up in nature or clogging up infrastructure.
而现在，情况变得越来越糟了。近三分之一的塑料袋无法回收，要么堵在了城市基础设施的某个角落，要么在自然界中“自生自灭”。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ We spend more than a third of our lives in bed - but that place can quickly blossom into a "botanical park" of bacteria and fungus, according to New York University microbiologist Philip Tierno.
纽约大学的微生物学家菲利普•缇艾诺指出，我们有超过三分之一的人生都是在床上度过的，而我们的床可以迅速发展成细菌和真菌的“植物园”。
---- How often you should wash your bed sheets?
◇ Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use.
甚至在1880年前，半数在纽约、费城和巴尔的摩销售的冰，三分之一在波士顿和芝加哥销售的冰进入家庭使用。
---- The Origin of Refrigerators
◇ Now the villain went for a third time to the door, knocked at it, and said, "Open the door for me, children. Your dear mother has come home, and has brought every one of you something from the woods."
这个坏蛋第三次跑到山羊家，一面敲门一面说：“开门哪，孩子们。你们的好妈妈回来了，还从森林里给你们每个人带回来一些东西。”