For the weary, a jar of something spicy or sour was an easy way to enliven the umpteenth cheese toastie.
对于疲于做饭的人来说,一罐辛辣或酸爽的东西可以很简单地点亮无数烤芝士三明治的味道。
一张俊美的脸
It's very odd, isn't it, how guilty an innocent person feels when he can't account for himself on the umpteenth inst.
这很奇怪,不是吗,当一个无辜的人在无数次的情况下都无法解释自己时, 他会感到多么内疚。
哈利波特与凤凰社
To disappointed moans from the many people who were sitting around him, asking him to relive his interview for the umpteenth time, he announced that he too needed an early night.
于是他宣布他也需要早点儿睡觉,令围坐在他身边无数次让他重温采访经过的人们发出失望的抱怨。
哈利波特与混血王子
" But what about when he said, 'Don't forget to keep that one safe'? " asked Harry for the umpteenth time. " That sounded to me like Borgin's got another one of the broken objects, and Malfoy wants both."
Many languages have words expressing indefinite and fictitious numbers—inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable. One technical term for such words is "non-numerical vague quantifier".