Three feet. Then if we add a half to this line of two, that will be the line of three. Here are two and there is one; and on the other side, here are two also and there is one: and that makes the figure of which you speak? But if there are three feet this way and three feet that way, the whole space will be three times three feet? That is evident. And how much are three times three feet? And how much is the double of four? Eight.英文原著 · 《Meno》
Fragment #8 -- Etym. Gen.: Hesiod (says there were so called) because they settled in three groups: `And they all were called the Three-fold people, because they divided in three the land far from their country.' For (he says) that three Hellenic tribes settled in Crete, the Pelasgi, Achaeans and Dorians. And these have been called Three-fold People.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
"Well, then," said Hal, "we three big ones have sixpence a week each, that's six shillings, leaving out stingy Bess, and the little ones threepence, that's three times three is nine, and three times nine is thirty-six, that's three shillings, and six is nine, and very near four is fourteen. We shall do the pig yet."英文原著 · 《The Stokesley Secret》
The carriage was at the door! The manager, undisturbed, asked for what hour Monsieur Coleman had been pleased to order a carriage. Three o'clock ! Three o'clock? The manager pointed calmly at the clock. Very well. It was now only thirteen minutes of three o'clock. Monsieur Coleman doubtless would appear at three.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
blind fool! can't you very well see, These are three roasting spits my mother sent to me?' 'Ods bobs! well done! roasting spits with scabbards on! The like was never known!' Old Wichet a cuckold went out, and a cuckold he came home! I went into the parlour, and there for to see, And there I saw three cloaks hang, by one, by two, and by three; O! I called to my loving wife, and 'Anon, kind sir!' quoth she; 'O! what do these three cloaks do here, without the leave of me?'
'Why, you old fool!英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
blind fool! can't you very well see, These are three mantuas my mother sent to me?' 'Ods bobs! well done! mantuas with capes on! The like was never known!' Old Wichet a cuckold went out, and a cuckold he came home! I went into the pantry, and there for to see, And there I saw three pair of boots, (50) by one, by two, and by three; O! I called to my loving wife, and 'Anon, kind sir!' quoth she; 'O! what do these three pair of boots here, without the leave of me?'
'Why, you old fool!英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
Three everything-- three days, three weeks, three months, three years.美剧 · 《The News Room》
I tried, but when I got to my lawyer's office, all I heard was: "Three divorces! Three divorces!" I just don't want my tombstone to read "Ross Geller: Three Divorces." Don't worry about that. Your tombstone can say whatever you want.美剧 · 《Friends》
I would wait on line for exactly three things: One, the first batch of new Lemmon 714 quaaludes coming off the assembly line, two, a chance to meet Ellen DeGeneres and three, every time I go to Miami, for some Joe's Stone Crabs.美剧 · 《Billions》
Replace the blanks in this sentence with two three-letter words made from the same letters: "The woman decided to blank the beast where he lay rather than blank him home." She decided to blank. it's a three-letter word?美剧 · 《Billions》