three-fourths

英 [ˌθriː ˈfɔːθs]

美 [ˌθriː ˈfɔːrθs]

qua.  四分之三(美国英语)

柯林斯词典

• QUANT 四分之三(美国英语)
  In American English, people sometimes usethree-fourthsto meanthree-quarters.
  1. Three-fourths of the apartments in the ghetto had no heat...
     贫民区有 3/4 的公寓没有暖气。
  2. Government expenditures absorbed nearly three-fourths of the national income.
     政府开支耗费了将近 3/4 的国民收入。
  3. Three-fourthsis also a pronoun.
     
  4. He has just under 1,600 delegates, about three-fourths what he needs to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
     支持他的代表数接近 1,600 人，约占他要赢得民主党总统候选人提名所需票数的 3/4。

英英释义

noun

• three of four equal parts
  1. three-fourths of a pound
  Synonym:three-quarters

双语例句

• Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
  的地球表面为水所覆盖。这些水一直处于运动状态之中。
• Three-fourths of the workers in the factory are women.
  这个工厂四分之三的工人是女工。
• I saw a small clearing of not more than three-fourths of an acre in the heart of this wilderness right in the mountaintop.
  在山顶的荒野的中央，我发现了一晓小块不足四分之三英亩大小的开阔地。
• More than three-fourths of the polyphenolic constituents of tea may be extracted after the leaves are fermented.
  发酵以后的茶叶可以萃取出所含的四分之三以上的多酚类物质。
• Division into measures or bars. Three-fourths meter is waltz time.
  节拍将音乐分成拍子和小节的分切三/四拍是华尔兹曲的节拍。
• Three-fourths of the apartments in the ghetto had no heat
  贫民区有3/4的公寓没有暖气。
• It's been three-fourths of a long, long year.
  三年四年，或许已经比这更久了。
• More than three-fourths had to pay finance charges last year because they carried a balance.
  去年因为超支，超过四分之三的学生不得不支付信贷费用。
• The sea covers nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface.
  海洋几乎占地球表面的四分之三。
• About three-fourths of all the fresh water in the world is stored as glacier ice.
  世界上大约全部淡水的四分之三储存于冰川之中。