二十

他蹲了二十年监狱以后终于获得了自由。

He finally won his freedom after twenty years in jail .

搅好面糊以后，放上二十分钟。

Mix the batter and let it stand for twenty minutes .

在部门的合理化改革中，有二十名工人失业。

Twenty workers lost their jobs when the department was rationalized .

我们在同一座房子里住了二十年了。

We have lived in the same house for twenty years .

两名幸存者受困二十分钟后才被解救出来。

Two survivors were cut free after being trapped for twenty minutes .

他们阔别二十年后又见面了。

They met again after a gap of twenty years .

我已经二十年没见她了。

It 's twenty years since I 've seen her .

我们在这里待了差不多二十年了。

We 've been here twenty years , near enough .

我当时二十岁，什么都愿意去做。

I was twenty years old and ready for anything .

其余的二十名病人被转送到另一家医院去了。

The remaining twenty patients were transferred to another hospital .

我觉得二十位客人就够了。

Twenty guests are enough , I would have thought .

那么，每一种都是二十个，对不对？

So that 's twenty of each sort , right ?

这家公司一年出版二十种新书。

The company publishes twenty new titles a year .

我等了二十分钟，有点不耐烦了。

I 'd been waiting for twenty minutes and I was getting impatient .

这个工厂二十年前就废弃了。

The factory fell into disuse twenty years ago .

那里有不到二十个人。

There were fewer than twenty people there .

我们换轮胎耽误了二十分钟。

We lost twenty minutes changing a tyre .

我并不想催你，但我们再过二十分钟就要关门。

I don 't want to hurry you but we close in twenty minutes .

那儿有差不多二十个人。

There were twenty or so people there .

我和戴夫相识有二十年了。

Dave and I go back twenty years .

从一至二十中挑选一个数。

Pick a number from one to twenty .

可以给我找二十元的钞票吗？

Can you break a twenty-dollar bill ?

他二十出头。

He 's in his early twenties .

乘船二十小时之后，他们终于到达了目的地。

At last , after twenty hours on the boat , they arrived at their destination .

即使重量仅有1克的二十分之几都可能是关键性的。

A few twentieths of a gram can be critical .

我二十岁前后那几年过得真苦啊。

My late teens and early twenties were really rough years

结婚二十年里，他只像样地度过两次假。

In twenty years of marriage he has only taken two proper vacations .

他的兄弟姐妹大多二十出头。

His siblings are mostly in their early twenties

产量中有二十分之一出口。

One twentieth of the total output was exported .

“executive”是个现在已在英国语汇中牢牢立住脚跟的美国词，它是在二十世纪五十年代在英国赢得地盘的。

" executive " is an Americanism now firmly implanted in the British vocabulary , having triumphed there in the course of the nineteen-fifties .