Vacation
[və'keɪʃ(ə)n;veɪ-] or [və'keʃ(ə)n;ve-]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of making something legally void.
(noun.) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; 'we get two weeks of vacation every summer'; 'we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico'.
(verb.) spend or take a vacation.
整理:拉尔夫--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
(n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
(n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.
編輯:罗比
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Intermission (of studies, &c.).
整理:奥拉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Holiday, recreation
ANT:Term, business
整理:默娜
例句/造句/用法:
- Your friend is spending her vacation in travelling, I hear? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- What shall you do all your vacation? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Where had I spent the vacation? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn't dawdle. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- All this occurred during the first month of the long vacation. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Do you study in vacation time? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The allurement of a vacation camp in the heart of the woods is so great as to make many campers ignore the vital importance of securing a safe water supply. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In his vacations from London he went to the farthest regions of the British Isles, spending considerable time in the north of Ireland and the Hebrides. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I did them in the last two vacations I spent at Lowood, when I had no other occupation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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