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基本解释

The teacher miscounted the number of boys.
老師數錯了男生的人數。
They have retrained a number of young technicians for our factory.
他們爲我廠再培訓了一些年輕的技術員。
They cannibalized three aircraft carriers and a number of warships to form a task force.
他們抽調了三艘航空母艦和一些戰艦組成一支特遣部隊。

They also hold big shares of Citigroup and a number of other banks, as well as sixty percent of General Motors.
Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.
彌爾頓在《論出版自由》中花了很大功夫,試圖區分出版許可琯理和出版控制。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
And so when we say something is exponential, we're talking about in terms of the number of bits required to represent it.
所以儅我們說某些東西，是指數增長的我們指的,就是代表它的比特數。
麻省理工公開課 - 計算機科學及編程導論課程節選

More meaningful for pitcher pay is a quite different figure: total number of strikeouts.
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