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語源

From Middle English sexfold, from 古期英語 sixfeald. Equivalent to six +‎ -fold.

形容詞

sixfold (not comparable)

1. Having six times as much or as many.
2. Having six component parts.

   The method is sixfold, and I will tell you what the six steps you must take are.

   • 1605, Andrew Willet, Hexapla in Geneſin, That Is, A Sixfold Commentarie Upon Genesis, wherein ſixe ſeverall tranſlations, that is the Septuagint, and the Chalde, two Latin, of Hierome, and Tremellius, two Engliſh, the great Bible , and the Geneva edition are compared.

副詞

sixfold (not comparable)

1. Times six, multiplied by six.

   I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with.

   • 1885, Alexander Campbell, Speeches on Divers Occasions, page 101, "[He] would state that in [1842, there were] 3,448 letters ... received, and in 1865 [that total was] 18,222, or nearly sixfold more.