inch是不是可数名词？

inch是不是可数名词?inch用作名词时,一般为可数名词,表示“英寸(略作in.)”,也可表示距离、程度等的“少许,一点”,一般用单数,还可作“身高,材料”解,此时常用复数。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

A standard bed is six feet three inches long.

标准床的长度是六英尺三英寸。

What is the best way to harden off new rose bushes only a few inches high?

要想使只有几英寸高的玫瑰长壮以移植户外,什么办法较好?

The house can be insulated from cold with about four inches of this special plastic.

这种特种塑料有4英寸左右厚就可以挡住屋外的寒气。

Snowfall averages out in this part of the country at twenty inches a year.

我国这个地区每年的平均降雪量为20英寸。

Our house has settled several inches since it was built.

房子建成以来已经下沉了好几英寸。

Would you saw me a piece of board two inches by one?

请给我锯一块长两英寸、宽一英寸的小板好吗?

How many imperial inches are there in one metric centimetre?—Naught point three nine three seven inches.

一厘米等于多少英寸?——等于0.397英寸。

Two inches isn't very long.

两寸并不长。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

The soldiers were inching along a ledge on a cliff.

战士们正在悬崖的突出部分匍匐而行。

He inched across the high roof.

他艰难地挪过了那房顶。

Prices are inching down

物价正逐步下降。

用作及物动词

They inched the rock up the slope.

他们一点点地把那块大石头移上坡。

The mountaineers inched their ways up the snowcapped peak.

登山运动员一步一步地攀登积雪的山峰。

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