four

1. 四
   4
2. 四个人（或事物）的一组
   a group of four people or things
   1. to make up a four at tennis
      凑成四个人打网球
   2. a coach and four (= four horses)
      四匹马拉的四轮大马车
3. 得四分的一击
   a shot that scores four runs
4. 四人赛艇的全体成员；四人赛艇
   a team of four people who row a long narrow boat in races; the boat that they row

1. NUM (数字)4
   Four is the number 4.
   1. Judith is married with four children.
      朱迪丝已经结婚了，有四个孩子。
2. N-COUNT (板球中)得 4 分的一击
   In cricket, if a player hits a four, they score four runs by hitting the ball along the ground so that it crosses the boundary at the edge of the playing area.
   1. Taylor hit 13 fours and batted for 140 minutes.
      泰勒打了 13 个 4 分球，击球时间为 140 分钟。
3. 四人赛艇
   A four is a narrow racing boat that is rowed by a team of four people.
4. PHRASE 四肢着地;趴着
   If you are on all fours, your knees, feet, and hands are on the ground.
   1. She crawled on all fours over to the window.
      她爬到窗边。

1. Rebels in Liberia have released four foreigners after holding them captive for a week.
   利比里亚的叛乱分子释放了4名被扣押了一个星期的外国人。
2. In this section we contrast four possible broad approaches.
   在这个部分，我们将对4种可行的广义方法进行对比。
3. He dribbled past four defenders
   他带球过了4名后卫。
4. Judith is married with four children.
   朱迪丝已经结婚了，有四个孩子。
5. Taylor hit 13 fours and batted for 140 minutes.
   泰勒打了13个4分球，击球时间为140分钟。
6. She crawled on all fours over to the window.
   她爬到窗边。
7. He's already been gone four hours!
   他已经离开4个小时了！
8. I think I got there about four and left about half past.
   我想我是4点钟左右到达那里，大约半个小时后离开的。
9. These last four years have been hard on them.
   过去的这四年里他们吃了不少苦。
10. Sixteen teams are taking part, divided into four groups
    有16个队参加，分为4组。
11. Sampras reached the last four at Wimbledon.
    桑普拉斯杀入了温布尔登四强。
12. The settlement ends more than four years of litigation on behalf of the residents.
    这一和解协议结束了代表居民提起的超过四年之久的诉讼。
13. I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
    四五年前，在我40岁的时候，我经历了中年危机。
14. We papered all four bedrooms
    我们把4个卧室都贴了墙纸。
15. He spent four years studying pharmacy.
    他花了4年时间学习药剂学。
16. After four months in foreign parts, every hour at home was precious
    在国外呆了4个月后，在家的每一刻都是宝贵的。
17. There have been four years of below average rainfall.
    已经有4年降雨量低于平均值了。
18. Six prisoners are still at large along with four dangerous recidivists.
    4个危险的惯犯和其他6名犯人仍然在逃。
19. We saw the therapist four times, and the children have now settled down.
    我们去看了四次治疗专家，现在孩子们已经稳定下来了。
20. He's the shortest of four brothers.
    他是四兄弟中个子最矮的。
21. There have been four hundred escapes this year, showing up the lack of security.
    今年已发生400起越狱事件了，这充分显示了安全措施的不到位。
22. James had been unfaithful to Christine for the entire four years they'd been together.
    在和克里斯蒂娜共同生活的4年中，詹姆斯一直对她不忠。
23. Two of the four national daily papers are to become weeklies.
    4份全国性日报中有两份将改为周报。
24. The top four teams all won
    排名前四的队伍都赢了。
25. The year is divided into four seasons.
    一年分四季。
26. I bid four diamonds.
    我叫四个方块。
27. Women's teams from Guangdong carried off the first four places at the national championships.
    在全国锦标赛中，广东女队夺得了前四名。
28. My stand on this is just the same as it was four years ago.
    我对此事的立场与4年前的无异。
29. We ordered four beefsteaks.
    我们点了四块牛排。
30. There are at present four television channels.
    现在有四个电视频道。

n.

on all fours

• 匍匐着；趴着
  bent over with hands and knees on the ground
  1. We were crawling around on all fours.
     我们匍匐着四处爬行。

these four walls

• （用于叮嘱保守秘密）到此为止
  used when you are talking about keeping sth secret
  1. Don't let this go further than these four walls (= Don't tell anyone else who is not in the room now) .
     走出屋外这事就不要再谈了。

noun

1. a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips

   Synonym:    four-spot

2. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

   Synonym:    4IVtetradquaternquaternionquaternaryquaternityquartetquadrupletfoursomeLittle Joe

adj

1. being one more than three

   Synonym:    4iv