Month
[mʌnθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a time unit of approximately 30 days; 'he was given a month to pay the bill'.
校對:内尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
編輯:米考伯
例句/造句/用法:
- His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- How many times have you opened the door for me within this last month? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The fighting on the Bainsizza plateau was over and by the middle of the month the fighting for San Gabriele was about over too. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- On a fine Sunday evening, in the month of August, John Edmunds set foot in the village he had left with shame and disgrace seventeen years before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- April came--the month of spring--the month of change. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Do you mean, Sir Percival, that I am to dismiss the indoor servants under my charge without the usual month's warning? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The 4th infantry went into camp at Salubrity in the month of May, 1844, with instructions, as I have said, to await further orders. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- This action, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is expected to come on, on the fourteenth of next month. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I am sorry to say it's no use asking me about days of the month, and such-like. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Upholsterers frequently let furniture by the month or by the year. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I did not know, myself, until the sixth of this present month, when I went to look. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I think it will be a month or more. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- All in two months! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Three months comprised thirteen weeks. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He had only to describe himself as a seven months' child. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This had been going on more than five months, seven days a week, when I was called down to the laboratory to see him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was down for thirty-six days in the first six months. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She had the misfortune to lose her husband when she had been married a few months. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Central incisors 5 to 8 months Lateral incisors 7 to 10 months First molars 12 to 16 months Canines 15 to 20 months Second molars 20 to 36 months _Permanent Teeth. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Though war and danger were in store, war and danger might not befall for months to come. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Here you have been abroad nearly six months, and done nothing but waste time and money and disappoint your friends. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Another, Lucy Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few months. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Within two months of this masquerade he was dead. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:温弗雷德