Fiftieth

(noun.) position 50 in a countable series of things.

(adj.) the ordinal number of fifty in counting order .

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• Those from husband to wife, or from wife to husband, to the fiftieth penny. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Then the telephone company gave me a dinner, and the engineers of France; and I attended the dinner celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of photography. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There is one thing he can not avoid; go where he will about the world, he must never fail to report in Jerusalem every fiftieth year. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• As she reached Fiftieth Street the clouds broke abruptly, and a rush of cold rain slanted into her face. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• In 1720, interest was reduced from the twentieth to the fiftieth penny, or from five to two per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• With infinite pains and cunning, he double locks and bars forty-nine of them, and cannot see the fiftieth standing wide open. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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