Decade
['dekeɪd;dɪ'keɪd] or ['dɛked]
解释:
(n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.
编辑:耶鲁
解释:
n. a group of ten esp. a series of ten years.—adj. Dec′adal.
校对:罗杰
例句:
- And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Within the last decade or so shells have been invented with the design simply to shatter or fracture the plate by which the way is broken for subsequent shots. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is a revolutionary task, and like all real revolutions it will not be done in a day or a decade because someone orders it to be done. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The third decade was now prepared for the development of the telegraph. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- First Decade of Nineteenth Century Produces Wonderful Inventor, Thomas Blanchard. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In the last decade many applications of the explosive gas engine to road carriages and tricycles have been made, especially in France. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Like the paper-making machine, the power press was conceived in the last decade of the eighteenth century, and like that art was also not developed until the nineteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Within the next decade, one looks to see a remarkable advance in this direction. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It will surprise many readers, then, to know that the electric light had its birth in the first decade of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Sir Samuel Bentham, of England, whose inventions in the last decade of the Eighteenth Century formed the nucleus of the modern art of woodworking. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Jacquard, a native of Lyons, conceived the plan of his great invention in the last decade of the Eighteenth Century, and on December 28, 1801, took out French patent No. 245, on the same. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Tull's machines were much improved by James Cooke, a clergyman of Lancashire, England; and also in the last decade of the eighteenth century by Baldwin and Wells of Norfolk, England. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Their use was known to our seafaring men in the forties, for it was in that decade that Capt. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It was during that decade that, in the United States, Batcheller invented the perpetual feed for moving the cloth horizontally under and past the needle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The Decade of 1849-1859, Greatest in Century in Sewing Machine Inventions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There had been exactly four decades of steam navigation on American waters. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Within two decades of the crucifixion this new religion was already attracting the attention of the Roman rulers in several provinces. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The slight leeway of a century or so, a few decades may recover. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The growth of this industry in the four earlier decades is as follows (the relatively small increase between 1860 and 1870 being accounted for by the Civil War): 1840. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It would be but repetition to enumerate here the practical results of the laboratory work during the past two decades, as they appear on other pages of this work. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- To Damascus, years are only moments, decades are only flitting trifles of time. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
校对:米利森特