【three音标】 英[θri:] 美[θri:]
【单词释义】 three是什么意思：
num.三；三个；第三（章，页等）
n.三岁；三个人[东西]；三，三个
adj.三的；三个的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] threes
【three形近词/近似词】
referee n.裁判员；仲裁员；调解人 v.为…当裁判；仲裁判定；审阅，鉴定
tree n.树；木料 vt.把…赶上树；爬上树；使处于困境
decree n.法令，政令；（法院的）判决，裁定 v.裁定，判决；颁布
free adj.自由的；免费的；空闲的 vt.释放；使自由
【单词例句】
◇ "Her house is good quarter hour from here in the woods, under the three large oak trees. There's a hedge of hazel bushes there. You must know the place," said Little Red Cap.
“进了林子还有一段路呢。她的房子就在三棵大橡树下，低处围着核桃树篱笆。你一定知道的。”小红帽说。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ Oh, the spring freshness was so delicious. Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a thicket.
啊，这儿充满了醉人的初春的气息！三只美丽的白天鹅从树荫里一直游到他面前来。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ Then she saw a little glass table with three legs,and on the top of it was a very small gold key.
。接着她看见一张三条腿的小玻璃桌，上面放了一把很小的金钥匙。
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ This faithful Harry had been very unhappy when his master was changed into a frog. His hear almost burst with sorrow. So he fastened three iron bands round his heart.
当他的主人被变成青蛙时，忠实的哈利非常不开心。他的心因悲伤而几乎崩裂。所以他用３条铁片捆住他的心。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ "Ah! we shall soon see that!" thought the old Queen-mother; however, she said not a word of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom,took all the bed-clothes off the bed, and put three little peas on the bedstead.
“是的，这点我们马上就可以考查出来。”老皇后心里想，可是她什么也没说。她走进卧房，把所有的被褥都搬开，在床榻上放了三粒豌豆。
---- The Real Princess
◇ He met a large amount of difficulty but was never stopped. On the contrary, difficulty pushed him to go ahead harder. Three months later, he was spotted by a ship by accident. He was in rags indeed.
他遇到了许多困难，但是从未停止，相反，困难推动他更努力地前进。三个月后，当他被一艘船偶然发现时，真的是衣衫褴褛。
---- Sailing Home
◇ Three million people die prematurely each year due to tobacco use that causes cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and stroke, the world's leading killers, it said, marking World No Tobacco Day. They include 890,000 deaths through second-hand smoke exposure.
世卫组织在世界无烟日到来之际表示，全球每年有300万人因烟草使用导致的心脏病和中风等心血管疾病过早死亡，其中89万人死于二手烟，这些疾病是头号健康杀手。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ The first task, completed in silence, was completed in an average time of 20 minutes and 59 seconds. However, the second transcription exercise that involved music was completed in an average time of 17 minutes and 42 seconds; a difference of three minutes and 17 seconds, or 15%.
第一项在静默中完成的抄写任务，平均完成时间为20分59秒。而在听音乐时执行的第二个任务平均完成时间为17分42秒，相差3分17秒，即15%。
---- Listening to classical music at work boosts productivity
◇ Keep in mind that some states, like New Jersey, have rules about how institutions label themselves. There, a university has to have at least three fields of graduate study leading to advanced degrees.
要知道，美国的一些州，比如新泽西州，对于高校取名有规定。在该州，一所高校至少必须有三个学科提供研究生学位才能自称为university。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ 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。