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6 六 There are six cookies left. 还剩六块饼干。 six of Sweden’s top financial experts 瑞典六名顶尖金融专家 Ten people were invited but only six turned up. 十个人被邀请了，但只有六个人出现了。 Can you lend me six dollars? 你能借我六美元吗？ a six-month contract 一份六个月的合约 Look at page six. 看第六页。 Six and four is ten. 六加四等于十。 Three sixes are eighteen. 三个六是十八。 I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six? 我看不懂你写的东西——这应该是6吗？ The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes (= groups of four or six). 球茎分成四个或六个一组种植。 We moved to America when I was six (= six years old). 我六岁时，我们搬到了美国。 Shall we meet at six (= at six o'clock), then? 那我们六点钟见面好吗？
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(in cricket 板球 a hit that scores six runs (= points) 六
Word OriginOld English siex, six, syx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex.
Idioms
at sixes and sevens
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in a confused state; not well organized 乱七八糟；凌乱 I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens. 我还没来得及收拾，所以乱七八糟的。
be six feet under
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to be dead and buried in the ground 入土；在九泉之下
hit/knock somebody for six
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to affect somebody very deeply 极大地影响某人 The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six. 这场官司真的让她大吃一惊。
it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other
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used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choices 半斤八两；不相上下