four

英 [fɔː(r)]

美 [fɔːr]

n. 四; 四个; 第四四的; 四个一组之物

Collins.5 / BNC.184 / COCA.247

习惯用语

on all fours

these four walls

（用于叮嘱保守秘密）到此为止
used when you are talking about keeping sth secret
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。

四
4
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
得四分的一击
a shot that scores four runs
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

NUM (数字)4
Fouris the number 4.
1. Judith is married with four children.
  朱迪丝已经结婚了，有四个孩子。
N-COUNT (板球中)得 4 分的一击
In cricket, if a player hits afour, 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。
四人赛艇
Afouris a narrow racing boat that is rowed by a team of four people.
PHRASE 四肢着地;趴着
If you areon 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。

noun

a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
Synonym:four-spot
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
Synonym:4IVtetradquaternquaternionquaternaryquaternityquartetquadrupletfoursomeLittle Joe

adj

Judith is married with four children.
朱迪丝已经结婚了，有四个孩子。
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。
Sampras reached the last four at Wimbledon.
桑普拉斯杀入了温布尔登四强。
There are at present four television channels.
现在有四个电视频道。
These last four years have been hard on them.
过去的这四年里他们吃了不少苦。
He's already been gone four hours!
他已经离开4个小时了！
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。
The top four teams all won
排名前四的队伍都赢了。
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。
He's the shortest of four brothers.
他是四兄弟中个子最矮的。