third time's a charm什么意思？谢谢

third time's a charm什么意思~

　　third time's a charm
　　第三时间的魅力
　　双语例句

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　　You know what they say& the third time's the charm, DeGeneres said in a statement.
　　你知道的，三次出奇迹。DeGeneres在一个声明中说道。

the phrase "Third time's the charm" refers to the superstition that after two failures in any endeavor,a third attempt is more likely to succeed.
这是一个美国谚语，指的是，事情做到第三次，会更有可能成功。

Third time lucky第三次会好运的意思出自
Elizabeth Barrett Browning的信‘

Meaning

The belief that the third time something is attempted is more likely to succeed than the previous two attempts. It is also used as a good luck charm - spoken just before trying something for the third time.

Origin

The first time we come across what appears to be a precursor to this phrase is in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters addressed to R. H. Horne, 1839:

‘The luck of the third adventure’ is proverbial.

It is listed explicitly in Alexander Hislop's The proverbs of Scotland, 1862:

"The third time's lucky. "

The 'proverbial' description from the mid 19th century suggest it dates from earlier, although how much earlier we can't really tell.

third time luckyWhy is the third time lucky? Again, we don't know. There are a few suggestions. The most common is that it alludes to the belief that, under English law, anyone who survived three attempts at hanging would be set free. This is probably from the story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee. Lee was a West Country sailor who was convicted of the murder of Emma Keyse at Babbacombe Bay in 1885. He was sentenced to hang at Exeter prison and three attempts to execute him all failed. The Home Secretary of the time, Sir William Harcourt, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and Lee was later freed. He was known thereafter as 'the man they couldn't hang' and went on to live a long life, dying sometime in the 1940s. Fascinating story though it is, the use of 'third time lucky' predates it and thus it can't be the origin. Nor is any earlier reference to the supposed English law on freeing those who survived three hanging attempts. This legal ruling never existed in any general sense and is restricted to isolated cases like Lee's.

Another suggestion is that it refers to the Christian Trinity. There seems little to support that idea. It might relate in some way to goodness or luck being associated with the number three, but has no specific link with the third of anything.

It seems more likely that it is just a folk belief that, having had setbacks, we ought to persevere and not give up. This is enshrined in the phrase 'try, try and try again'. Three seems to be the right number of times to try. Two isn't enough but four is too many. Think of every time you've seen a drama in which a character tries to unlock a door with an set of unfamiliar keys. The first key fails, the second key fails - it is always the third that works.

The same idea is expressed in the American expression 'third time's a charm'. This may be an variant of the earlier 'third time lucky' or it may have arisen independently in the USA. The first citation I can find for it is in The Weekly Sentinel, June 1912. This is in a rather snooty court report about a Mrs. Martha Carliss, who had been twice married previously and 'gave her name as' sixty four:

That Mrs. Martha Carliss evidently believes in peace and happiness in wedlock and that she probably thinks third time's a charm is shown by the fact that she was granted a license today to marry Andrew W. Mowery.

third
time's
a
charm
第三次的魅力
双语对照
例句:
1.
Because
third
time's
a
charm.
Right?
由于第三次的魅力。对吗？
2.
Your
shameless
appearance,
quite
has
my
young
time
charm.
你无耻的样子，颇有我年轻时候的神韵

第一次、第二次尝试不成功，第三次应该能过吧的意思。

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危雁神曲： the third time 第三次

金阊区13491015024： ime是时间,times是次数,为什么是third time,而不是third times - ？
危雁神曲： third time ,是第三次是单数,所以用time ,three times 三次,这两个不一样

金阊区13491015024： 英语中,分数倍数的time加s么 eg:one thirds time还是 one thirds times - ？
危雁神曲： one third time; two thirds time; OR two over three, one over three...

金阊区13491015024： third time three time three times third times 到底什 - ？
危雁神曲： 没有three time这种说法,three times是三次,third time是第三次(前面应该有the) third times,是第三个时期 满意请采纳,谢谢

金阊区13491015024： a third time 什么意思？
危雁神曲： a third time 相当与another time,再来一次,不表示第几次. 只不过这再来一次正好是第三次而已. the third time表示第三次,有顺序.

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危雁神曲： a second time和a third time区别 a second time是指在原有的【一次】之后的【又一次】.a third time是指在原有的【两次】之后的【又一次】.

金阊区13491015024： the third times 中times是什么词性 - ？
危雁神曲： 这种写法是错误的,第三次应该是:the third time,time不能是复数形式.

金阊区13491015024： 第几次 时,后面time 是不用加s的吧? - ？
危雁神曲： 理解正确 the third time; three times2. (take) once each in the morning and and evening 如果是服药

金阊区13491015024： a third time 指再次,又一次,不表示顺序. the third time 第三次,强调顺序. - ？
危雁神曲： a third time 指“再一次”,但这个“再一次”暗含是“第三次”的意思 the third time 是特指“第三次”那一次 如果表示“又一次”,可以说a+序数词+time,但是这种表达暗含了这个“又一次”是第几次,如果不强调第几次,可以说another time

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