Definition of seventy in English:

seventy

cardinal number ˈsɛv(ə)ntiˈsɛvən(t)i

1The number equivalent to the product of seven and ten; ten less than eighty; 70.
70七十；七十个
about seventy people attended
大约70人出席。
seventy were arrested
70人被捕了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The National Prison in Paola has seventy to eighty prisoners.
- There are seventy or eighty families around the world that make their living from our companies and our related companies.
- Back in 1987, Carson, along with a team of seventy doctors, performed the first successful separation operation on German twins.
- When the psalmist wrote this verse, he declared that man's average lifespan was seventy to eighty years.
- Most works of philosophy that run to seventy or eighty volumes are hard to summarize.
- That's seventy or eighty thousand guineas a year!
- He produces seventy or eighty significant works each year and when he is in the mood he will work for fourteen hours or more a day.
- After this, the pilgrim travels to Mudalifah and collects seventy pea-sized pebbles, which will be used the following day for throwing.
- This staff of seventy or eighty managers met monthly.
- The event was attended by over seventy people from a wide range of organisational backgrounds.
- Most of the cards sold today are variations on themes introduced seventy to eighty years ago.
- The country's seventy to eighty dialects are derived from Malay languages.
- We certainly couldn't have used a title like this seventy years ago, but times have changed.
- It produces over seventy percent of the rose oil made in the world.
- The agency is to allocate between seventy and eighty grants all over the country.
- In the end, although canceled flights did prevent some members from coming, more than seventy were in attendance.
- This event was hugely successful with a Race Card of fifty-one races and over seventy generous sponsors whose names were listed on the official programme.
- A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.
- Up to seventy radioactive sources disappear from regulatory control annually within the EU alone, according to disturbing current estimates.
- The meeting was well attended with an audience of approximately seventy people.
1. 1.1seventies The numbers from seventy to seventy-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.
  七十几；七十年代；七十几岁
  Dad was now in his seventies
  爸爸现在70多岁了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies.
  Some friends, come to think of it, are in their seventies and eighties.
  In the sixties and seventies, weddings were held early in the day and were finished by 7pm.
  The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking.
  In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable.
  He used his cottage in the mountains as a base for hill walking, which he practised well into his seventies.
  It almost has the look of a city of the future, as seen in movies of the seventies and eighties!
  Your work from the sixties and seventies would certainly lend support to that claim.
  Bearing in mind that we are both in our seventies we found ourselves in a very traumatic situation.
  Martin was in his early seventies and was involved with farming down through the years.
  Now it's back in style and Stanley, in his seventies, has been picked up again by the label.
  All three books reveal Henderson, by then in his seventies and eighties, as he chose to be revealed.
  He was an icon to many of my Belfast school friends in the late seventies who were starting their own bands.
  Now they are mostly in their seventies or eighties, and their stories need telling before they pass on.
  In the seventies and eighties there was a motorway service station chain called Happy Eater.
  I used to do photography seriously, and even wrote a book on photography in schools back in the seventies.
  Bill is played by David Carradine, American television's kung fu icon of the seventies.
  I can remember from my schooldays in the mid seventies reading about the warnings being given by scientists.
  In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork.
  The Irish economy had been attacked and undermined by a series of oil crises in the seventies.
2. 1.2 Seventy years old.
  七十岁
  she was nearly seventy
  她快70岁了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This summer the congregation consisted of three elderly men, one of them in a wheelchair, eight women aged thirty to seventy or so, and us.
  And I told him that my mother and father, my two aunts, my two grandparents on both sides, they all died around the age of seventy.
  He referred to a higher mortality rate of infant travellers and said that female travellers tended not to reach the age of seventy as often as female members of the settled community did.
  After working for four years Ferrel retired at the age of seventy.
  In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City.
  The government should increase funding to Primary Schools by gradually raising the pensionable age to seventy, with a reasonable warning period.
  It is with feelings of deep sadness that we record the passing of Tommy Kenneally, Lyreattin, Cappagh at his home recently at the age of seventy.
  The fifteen males and ten females on his plantation ranged in age from two to seventy.
  As he approached the age of seventy his health began to fail.
  He recalls that at age seventy he took his first vacation with Ginger.
  At the age of seventy, Anton's mother asked his father for a divorce.
  It was only when she began, at the age of seventy, to read them for professional reasons, that she allowed herself to be seduced.
  I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation.
  Re-discovered at age seventy he sang with the same vibrancy that had won him success earlier, but this didn't happen instantly.
  Every woman over the age of seventy in Victoria seemed to have the same handwriting.
  At the age of seventy, as he mentions in his Vassar lecture, Jorge Carrera Andrade had come full circle.
  At the age of seventy he is co-hosting a daily chat show on daytime television.
  Prostate cancer took his life in 1994 at the age of seventy.
  He retired from University College Dublin at the age of seventy in 1983.
  At the age of seventy, his blue eyes still twinkle under a mop of corkscrew curls.
3. 1.3 Seventy miles an hour.
  时速七十英里
  doing about seventy
  每小时行驶约70英里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Even though we were only going thirty miles an hour the other guy was going seventy.
4. 1.4 A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by seventy.
  （衣服等商品的）七十号

Derivatives

seventieth

ordinal numberˈsɛv(ə)ntɪəθˈsɛvən(t)iəθ

1Constituting number seventy in a sequence; 70th.
his seventieth birthday celebration
Example sentencesExamples
- Prague-born pianist Ivan Moravec celebrated his seventieth birthday in 2000.
- Congratulations to Jim Elliott, Crooke, who celebrated his seventieth birthday recently.
- Now, in the year of his seventieth birthday, Starchev is preparing for a new exhibition.
- the tiny capsules are just one seventieth of the size of red blood cells
2Each of seventy equal parts into which something is or may be divided.

seventyfold
七十岁

adverb & adjective

The two investigators confirmed early work indicating that cellular extracts can change the stiffness of dermis between tenfold and seventyfold.

Origin

Old English hundseofontig, from hund- (of uncertain origin) + seofon 'seven' + -tig (see -ty²).

Definition of seventy in US English:

seventy

cardinal numberˈsɛvən(t)iˈsevən(t)ē

1The number equivalent to the product of seven and ten; ten less than eighty; 70.
70七十；七十个
about seventy people attended
大约70人出席。
seventy were arrested
70人被捕了。
Example sentencesExamples
- He produces seventy or eighty significant works each year and when he is in the mood he will work for fourteen hours or more a day.
- When the psalmist wrote this verse, he declared that man's average lifespan was seventy to eighty years.
- Most of the cards sold today are variations on themes introduced seventy to eighty years ago.
- This event was hugely successful with a Race Card of fifty-one races and over seventy generous sponsors whose names were listed on the official programme.
- It produces over seventy percent of the rose oil made in the world.
- There are seventy or eighty families around the world that make their living from our companies and our related companies.
- This staff of seventy or eighty managers met monthly.
- Most works of philosophy that run to seventy or eighty volumes are hard to summarize.
- That's seventy or eighty thousand guineas a year!
- In the end, although canceled flights did prevent some members from coming, more than seventy were in attendance.
- The country's seventy to eighty dialects are derived from Malay languages.
- The agency is to allocate between seventy and eighty grants all over the country.
- The meeting was well attended with an audience of approximately seventy people.
- A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.
- The event was attended by over seventy people from a wide range of organisational backgrounds.
- We certainly couldn't have used a title like this seventy years ago, but times have changed.
- After this, the pilgrim travels to Mudalifah and collects seventy pea-sized pebbles, which will be used the following day for throwing.
- Up to seventy radioactive sources disappear from regulatory control annually within the EU alone, according to disturbing current estimates.
- The National Prison in Paola has seventy to eighty prisoners.
- Back in 1987, Carson, along with a team of seventy doctors, performed the first successful separation operation on German twins.
1. 1.1seventies The numbers from seventy to seventy-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.
  七十几；七十年代；七十几岁
  Dad was now in his seventies
  爸爸现在70多岁了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies.
  Now they are mostly in their seventies or eighties, and their stories need telling before they pass on.
  Bearing in mind that we are both in our seventies we found ourselves in a very traumatic situation.
  Martin was in his early seventies and was involved with farming down through the years.
  It almost has the look of a city of the future, as seen in movies of the seventies and eighties!
  In the seventies and eighties there was a motorway service station chain called Happy Eater.
  In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork.
  Some friends, come to think of it, are in their seventies and eighties.
  The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking.
  I can remember from my schooldays in the mid seventies reading about the warnings being given by scientists.
  He used his cottage in the mountains as a base for hill walking, which he practised well into his seventies.
  The Irish economy had been attacked and undermined by a series of oil crises in the seventies.
  I used to do photography seriously, and even wrote a book on photography in schools back in the seventies.
  He was an icon to many of my Belfast school friends in the late seventies who were starting their own bands.
  Your work from the sixties and seventies would certainly lend support to that claim.
  All three books reveal Henderson, by then in his seventies and eighties, as he chose to be revealed.
  Bill is played by David Carradine, American television's kung fu icon of the seventies.
  In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable.
  Now it's back in style and Stanley, in his seventies, has been picked up again by the label.
  In the sixties and seventies, weddings were held early in the day and were finished by 7pm.
2. 1.2 Seventy years old.
  七十岁
  she was nearly seventy
  她快70岁了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prostate cancer took his life in 1994 at the age of seventy.
  I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation.
  This summer the congregation consisted of three elderly men, one of them in a wheelchair, eight women aged thirty to seventy or so, and us.
  As he approached the age of seventy his health began to fail.
  The fifteen males and ten females on his plantation ranged in age from two to seventy.
  And I told him that my mother and father, my two aunts, my two grandparents on both sides, they all died around the age of seventy.
  In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City.
  He retired from University College Dublin at the age of seventy in 1983.
  Every woman over the age of seventy in Victoria seemed to have the same handwriting.
  Re-discovered at age seventy he sang with the same vibrancy that had won him success earlier, but this didn't happen instantly.
  It is with feelings of deep sadness that we record the passing of Tommy Kenneally, Lyreattin, Cappagh at his home recently at the age of seventy.
  The government should increase funding to Primary Schools by gradually raising the pensionable age to seventy, with a reasonable warning period.
  At the age of seventy, his blue eyes still twinkle under a mop of corkscrew curls.
  It was only when she began, at the age of seventy, to read them for professional reasons, that she allowed herself to be seduced.
  He recalls that at age seventy he took his first vacation with Ginger.
  At the age of seventy, as he mentions in his Vassar lecture, Jorge Carrera Andrade had come full circle.
  After working for four years Ferrel retired at the age of seventy.
  At the age of seventy he is co-hosting a daily chat show on daytime television.
  At the age of seventy, Anton's mother asked his father for a divorce.
  He referred to a higher mortality rate of infant travellers and said that female travellers tended not to reach the age of seventy as often as female members of the settled community did.
3. 1.3 Seventy miles an hour.
  时速七十英里
  doing about seventy
  每小时行驶约70英里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Even though we were only going thirty miles an hour the other guy was going seventy.

Origin

Old English hundseofontig, from hund- (of uncertain origin) + seofon ‘seven’ + -tig (see -ty).

词汇	seventy
释义	Definition of seventy in English: seventy cardinal number ˈsɛv(ə)ntiˈsɛvən(t)i 1The number equivalent to the product of seven and ten; ten less than eighty; 70. 70七十；七十个 about seventy people attended 大约70人出席。 seventy were arrested 70人被捕了。 Example sentencesExamples The National Prison in Paola has seventy to eighty prisoners. There are seventy or eighty families around the world that make their living from our companies and our related companies. Back in 1987, Carson, along with a team of seventy doctors, performed the first successful separation operation on German twins. When the psalmist wrote this verse, he declared that man's average lifespan was seventy to eighty years. Most works of philosophy that run to seventy or eighty volumes are hard to summarize. That's seventy or eighty thousand guineas a year! He produces seventy or eighty significant works each year and when he is in the mood he will work for fourteen hours or more a day. After this, the pilgrim travels to Mudalifah and collects seventy pea-sized pebbles, which will be used the following day for throwing. This staff of seventy or eighty managers met monthly. The event was attended by over seventy people from a wide range of organisational backgrounds. Most of the cards sold today are variations on themes introduced seventy to eighty years ago. The country's seventy to eighty dialects are derived from Malay languages. We certainly couldn't have used a title like this seventy years ago, but times have changed. It produces over seventy percent of the rose oil made in the world. The agency is to allocate between seventy and eighty grants all over the country. In the end, although canceled flights did prevent some members from coming, more than seventy were in attendance. This event was hugely successful with a Race Card of fifty-one races and over seventy generous sponsors whose names were listed on the official programme. A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. Up to seventy radioactive sources disappear from regulatory control annually within the EU alone, according to disturbing current estimates. The meeting was well attended with an audience of approximately seventy people. 1.1seventies The numbers from seventy to seventy-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life. 七十几；七十年代；七十几岁 Dad was now in his seventies 爸爸现在70多岁了。 Example sentencesExamples That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies. Some friends, come to think of it, are in their seventies and eighties. In the sixties and seventies, weddings were held early in the day and were finished by 7pm. The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking. In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable. He used his cottage in the mountains as a base for hill walking, which he practised well into his seventies. It almost has the look of a city of the future, as seen in movies of the seventies and eighties! Your work from the sixties and seventies would certainly lend support to that claim. Bearing in mind that we are both in our seventies we found ourselves in a very traumatic situation. Martin was in his early seventies and was involved with farming down through the years. Now it's back in style and Stanley, in his seventies, has been picked up again by the label. All three books reveal Henderson, by then in his seventies and eighties, as he chose to be revealed. He was an icon to many of my Belfast school friends in the late seventies who were starting their own bands. Now they are mostly in their seventies or eighties, and their stories need telling before they pass on. In the seventies and eighties there was a motorway service station chain called Happy Eater. I used to do photography seriously, and even wrote a book on photography in schools back in the seventies. Bill is played by David Carradine, American television's kung fu icon of the seventies. I can remember from my schooldays in the mid seventies reading about the warnings being given by scientists. In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork. The Irish economy had been attacked and undermined by a series of oil crises in the seventies. 1.2 Seventy years old. 七十岁 she was nearly seventy 她快70岁了。 Example sentencesExamples This summer the congregation consisted of three elderly men, one of them in a wheelchair, eight women aged thirty to seventy or so, and us. And I told him that my mother and father, my two aunts, my two grandparents on both sides, they all died around the age of seventy. He referred to a higher mortality rate of infant travellers and said that female travellers tended not to reach the age of seventy as often as female members of the settled community did. After working for four years Ferrel retired at the age of seventy. In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City. The government should increase funding to Primary Schools by gradually raising the pensionable age to seventy, with a reasonable warning period. It is with feelings of deep sadness that we record the passing of Tommy Kenneally, Lyreattin, Cappagh at his home recently at the age of seventy. The fifteen males and ten females on his plantation ranged in age from two to seventy. As he approached the age of seventy his health began to fail. He recalls that at age seventy he took his first vacation with Ginger. At the age of seventy, Anton's mother asked his father for a divorce. It was only when she began, at the age of seventy, to read them for professional reasons, that she allowed herself to be seduced. I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation. Re-discovered at age seventy he sang with the same vibrancy that had won him success earlier, but this didn't happen instantly. Every woman over the age of seventy in Victoria seemed to have the same handwriting. At the age of seventy, as he mentions in his Vassar lecture, Jorge Carrera Andrade had come full circle. At the age of seventy he is co-hosting a daily chat show on daytime television. Prostate cancer took his life in 1994 at the age of seventy. He retired from University College Dublin at the age of seventy in 1983. At the age of seventy, his blue eyes still twinkle under a mop of corkscrew curls. 1.3 Seventy miles an hour. 时速七十英里 doing about seventy 每小时行驶约70英里。 Example sentencesExamples Even though we were only going thirty miles an hour the other guy was going seventy. 1.4 A size of garment or other merchandise denoted by seventy. （衣服等商品的）七十号 Derivatives seventieth ordinal numberˈsɛv(ə)ntɪəθˈsɛvən(t)iəθ 1Constituting number seventy in a sequence; 70th. his seventieth birthday celebration Example sentencesExamples Prague-born pianist Ivan Moravec celebrated his seventieth birthday in 2000. Congratulations to Jim Elliott, Crooke, who celebrated his seventieth birthday recently. Now, in the year of his seventieth birthday, Starchev is preparing for a new exhibition. the tiny capsules are just one seventieth of the size of red blood cells 2Each of seventy equal parts into which something is or may be divided. seventyfold 七十岁 adverb & adjective The two investigators confirmed early work indicating that cellular extracts can change the stiffness of dermis between tenfold and seventyfold. Origin Old English hundseofontig, from hund- (of uncertain origin) + seofon 'seven' + -tig (see -ty²). Definition of seventy in US English: seventy cardinal numberˈsɛvən(t)iˈsevən(t)ē 1The number equivalent to the product of seven and ten; ten less than eighty; 70. 70七十；七十个 about seventy people attended 大约70人出席。 seventy were arrested 70人被捕了。 Example sentencesExamples He produces seventy or eighty significant works each year and when he is in the mood he will work for fourteen hours or more a day. When the psalmist wrote this verse, he declared that man's average lifespan was seventy to eighty years. Most of the cards sold today are variations on themes introduced seventy to eighty years ago. This event was hugely successful with a Race Card of fifty-one races and over seventy generous sponsors whose names were listed on the official programme. It produces over seventy percent of the rose oil made in the world. There are seventy or eighty families around the world that make their living from our companies and our related companies. This staff of seventy or eighty managers met monthly. Most works of philosophy that run to seventy or eighty volumes are hard to summarize. That's seventy or eighty thousand guineas a year! In the end, although canceled flights did prevent some members from coming, more than seventy were in attendance. The country's seventy to eighty dialects are derived from Malay languages. The agency is to allocate between seventy and eighty grants all over the country. The meeting was well attended with an audience of approximately seventy people. A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The event was attended by over seventy people from a wide range of organisational backgrounds. We certainly couldn't have used a title like this seventy years ago, but times have changed. After this, the pilgrim travels to Mudalifah and collects seventy pea-sized pebbles, which will be used the following day for throwing. Up to seventy radioactive sources disappear from regulatory control annually within the EU alone, according to disturbing current estimates. The National Prison in Paola has seventy to eighty prisoners. Back in 1987, Carson, along with a team of seventy doctors, performed the first successful separation operation on German twins. 1.1seventies The numbers from seventy to seventy-nine, especially the years of a century or of a person's life. 七十几；七十年代；七十几岁 Dad was now in his seventies 爸爸现在70多岁了。 Example sentencesExamples That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies. Now they are mostly in their seventies or eighties, and their stories need telling before they pass on. Bearing in mind that we are both in our seventies we found ourselves in a very traumatic situation. Martin was in his early seventies and was involved with farming down through the years. It almost has the look of a city of the future, as seen in movies of the seventies and eighties! In the seventies and eighties there was a motorway service station chain called Happy Eater. In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork. Some friends, come to think of it, are in their seventies and eighties. The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking. I can remember from my schooldays in the mid seventies reading about the warnings being given by scientists. He used his cottage in the mountains as a base for hill walking, which he practised well into his seventies. The Irish economy had been attacked and undermined by a series of oil crises in the seventies. I used to do photography seriously, and even wrote a book on photography in schools back in the seventies. He was an icon to many of my Belfast school friends in the late seventies who were starting their own bands. Your work from the sixties and seventies would certainly lend support to that claim. All three books reveal Henderson, by then in his seventies and eighties, as he chose to be revealed. Bill is played by David Carradine, American television's kung fu icon of the seventies. In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable. Now it's back in style and Stanley, in his seventies, has been picked up again by the label. In the sixties and seventies, weddings were held early in the day and were finished by 7pm. 1.2 Seventy years old. 七十岁 she was nearly seventy 她快70岁了。 Example sentencesExamples Prostate cancer took his life in 1994 at the age of seventy. I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation. This summer the congregation consisted of three elderly men, one of them in a wheelchair, eight women aged thirty to seventy or so, and us. As he approached the age of seventy his health began to fail. The fifteen males and ten females on his plantation ranged in age from two to seventy. And I told him that my mother and father, my two aunts, my two grandparents on both sides, they all died around the age of seventy. In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City. He retired from University College Dublin at the age of seventy in 1983. Every woman over the age of seventy in Victoria seemed to have the same handwriting. Re-discovered at age seventy he sang with the same vibrancy that had won him success earlier, but this didn't happen instantly. It is with feelings of deep sadness that we record the passing of Tommy Kenneally, Lyreattin, Cappagh at his home recently at the age of seventy. The government should increase funding to Primary Schools by gradually raising the pensionable age to seventy, with a reasonable warning period. At the age of seventy, his blue eyes still twinkle under a mop of corkscrew curls. It was only when she began, at the age of seventy, to read them for professional reasons, that she allowed herself to be seduced. He recalls that at age seventy he took his first vacation with Ginger. At the age of seventy, as he mentions in his Vassar lecture, Jorge Carrera Andrade had come full circle. After working for four years Ferrel retired at the age of seventy. At the age of seventy he is co-hosting a daily chat show on daytime television. At the age of seventy, Anton's mother asked his father for a divorce. He referred to a higher mortality rate of infant travellers and said that female travellers tended not to reach the age of seventy as often as female members of the settled community did. 1.3 Seventy miles an hour. 时速七十英里 doing about seventy 每小时行驶约70英里。 Example sentencesExamples Even though we were only going thirty miles an hour the other guy was going seventy. Origin Old English hundseofontig, from hund- (of uncertain origin) + seofon ‘seven’ + -tig (see -ty).
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