fortnight

n.两星期，十四天

noun

1. 两星期
   two weeks
   1. a fortnight's holiday
      两周的假期
   2. a fortnight ago
      两星期以前
   3. in a fortnight's time
      在两周的时间内
   4. He's had three accidents in the past fortnight.
      在过去两周他出了三次事故。

名词复数形式:fortnights

fortnight 两星期

缩写自古英语fourteniht, 即fourteen night. 来自古日耳曼民族用夜计时间的风俗习惯。

1. I've got some leave due to me and I was going to Tasmania for a fortnight.
   我打算利用应享有的假期去塔斯马尼亚呆两周。
2. I hope to be back in a fortnight.
   我希望在两周内赶回来。
3. Having chosen a meditation it is important that you stick to that meditation for, at the very least, a fortnight.
   选择了一种冥想方法后，至少要坚持练习两周时间，这一点非常重要。
4. It's the first so-called mercy flight for a fortnight as the Americans have been waiting for enough people to fill a 747 jet.
   美国人一直在等人坐满一架747飞机，这便是第一次为期两周的所谓慈善飞行。
5. My daughter comes to visit me once every fortnight.
   我女儿每两周来看我一次。
6. He will visit once a fortnight to see how his new staff are progressing
   他会每两个星期来访一次，看看他的新员工进展如何。
7. Got a job bottle-washing at the brewery. I lasted a fortnight. I couldn't stick it
   我找了份在啤酒厂洗瓶子的工作。干了两星期，就再也受不了了。
8. A fortnight later they came out of the woods.
   两个星期之后他们走出了树林。
9. During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey.
   在四月的上半月里，冉阿让作了一次旅行。
10. I know, because I've spent the past fortnight obsessively staring at footballers 'feet and making notes.
    我知道这些是因为我在过去的两周中一直紧盯着球员的战靴并做了笔记。
11. We have now been here almost a fortnight, and yet he does not come.
    我们来这儿都快两个星期了，可他还不来。
12. What I'd like is a fortnight in Greece where I can get away from it all.
    我所希望的是在希腊呆上2个星期，在那里我可以逃避现代生活的各种烦恼。
13. Last year I paid a visit to her and stayed fortnight with her.
    去年我去看她，呆了两周的时间。
14. I went to Rothesay for a fortnight.
    我到罗瑟赛依去了两个星期。
15. My aunt's coming in a fortnight's time.
    我的姨妈将在两周后到这儿来。
16. He sent out the ballots less than a fortnight ago and not all the votes are in.
    不到两周前，他寄出了选票，并非所有选票都寄到了收件人手中。
17. We had a big snow here a fortnight ago.
    两周前我们这里下了一场大雪。
18. After hearing the news, I knew that within a fortnight would fell restless again.
    听到这个消息以后，我知道在两个星期之内，我又会坐立不安。
19. It's a fortnight since I last saw him.
    自从上次见到他后，我已两星期没见到他了。
20. He was awarded a fortnight's holiday and100 thousand dollars.
    他被奖励一个两星期的假期和10万美元。
21. He looked much thinner than when I had seenhim a fortnight before.
    他比我半个月前见到他时瘦了很多。
22. I prefer a nominal gross domestic product target, for reasons I explained a fortnight ago.
    而我更倾向一个名义国内生产总值（GDP）目标，原因我在两周前已经解释过了。
23. So we should hear back in a fortnight or so.
    两周左右就能听到回音了。
24. I have attended four leaving dos for various people at various companies in the past fortnight alone.
    仅仅在过去两周内，我就参加了4个不同公司欢送不同人的告别聚会。
25. He told me that my new teacher was coming in a fortnight's time.
    他告诉我我的新老师将在两周后到这儿来。
26. He had been stayed in there fortnight.
    他在那儿呆了两星期。
27. For a fortnight after this episode matters went on as before.
    这段插曲发生两周后问题像以前一样发生了。
28. We were there for a fortnight and it rained buckets every day.
    我们在那里呆了两个星期，天天下倾盆大雨。
29. Bespeak him a fortnight before, I will have Antonio's heart if he forfeit.
    只要安东尼奥要受罚，我就会要了他的心。
30. I must try and cheer up H.B.as he has had a hell of a fortnight.
    我必须尽可能让H.B。高兴起来他已经经受了两个星期的折磨。