num. 二, 二个相关词组: one or two in two put two and two together in two twos
I can see two beings in the clouds.
在云雾中我可以看见两个人。
He types with only two fingers.
他用两个手指打字。
The two engineers are discussing their new building plans.
这两个工程师正在讨论新的建筑计划。
Five minus two is three.
5减去2等于3。
Two cotyledons have come out from the seedling.
小苗长出了两片子叶。
※The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.——Charles Lamb, British essayist 按照我所能归纳的最好理论,人类是由两个截然不同的种族构成的,即借方与出借方。英国散文家兰姆,C.
※There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter. 世界上只有两种力量∶刀和笔;而其结果,后者总是战胜前者。
※Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.——Ceorge Eric Blair Orwell.British novelist 自由是指人们有说“2+2=4”的自由,有了这一保证,其他一切便会随之而来。英国小说家奥韦尔 .G.E.B.
※A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。