Year
[jɪə;jɜː] or [jɪr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; 'a Martian year takes 687 of our days'.
(noun.) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; 'she is 4 years old'; 'in the year 1920'.
(noun.) a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; 'a school year'.
校對:韦恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
(n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
(n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
整理:米歇尔
解釋/意思:
n. a period of time determined by the revolution of the earth in its orbit and embracing the four seasons popularly a period beginning with 1st January and ending with 31st December consisting of 365 days (excepting every fourth year called 'bissextile' or 'leap-year ' in which one day is added to February making the number 366)—the Calendar Civil or Legal year: a space of twelve calendar months: (pl.) period of life esp. age or old age.—ns. Year′-book a book published annually containing reports of judicial cases or of discoveries events &c.; Year′ling an animal a year old.—adj. a year old.—adjs. Year′long lasting a year; Year′ly happening every year: lasting a year.—adv. once a year: from year to year.—Year of Grace or of our Lord date of the Christian era.—Anomalistic year (see Anomaly); Astronomical year the interval between one vernal equinox and the next or one complete mean apparent circuit of the ecliptic by the sun or mean motion through 360?of longitude—365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 49.7 seconds—called also the Equinoctial Solar or Tropical year; Canicular year—the ancient Egyptian—counted from one heliacal rising of Sirius to the next—(the Canicular Cycle was the cycle of 1461 years of 365 days each or 1460 Julian years also called the Sothiac period); Ecclesiastical year the year as arranged in the ecclesiastical calendar with saints' days festivals &c.; Embolismic year a year of thirteen lunar months or 384 days occurring in a lunisolar calendar like that of the Jews; Hebrew year a lunisolar year of 12 or 13 months of 29 or 30 days—in every cycle of nineteen years the 3d 6th 8th 11th 14th 17th and 19th having thirteen months instead of twelve; Julian year a period of 365?days thus causing an annual error of about 11 minutes—corrected by dropping 10 days in 1582 under Pope Gregory XIII.—not adopted in England till 3d September 1752 which became September 14 (see Style); Legal year the year by which dates were reckoned which till 1752 began in England on 25th March that date being originally chosen by Dionysius Exiguus as being the Annunciation—exactly nine months before Christmas. In Scotland the year began on 1st January since 1600.—The most common New Year's Days were these four—(a) 25th December; (b) 25th March; (c) Easter; (d) 1st January. Thus England used both the first and second from the 6th century to 1066; the fourth till 1155; then the second till the day after 31st December 1751 which was called 1st January 1752. Scotland used the second till 1599 when the day after 31st December 1599 was called 1st January 1600. France under Charlemagne used the first and afterwards also the third and second till 1563; Lunar year a period of twelve lunar months or 354 days Platonic year a cycle of years at the end of which the heavenly bodies are in the same place as at the Creation—also Great or Perfect year; Sabbatic -al year (see Sabbath); Sidereal year the period required by the sun to move from a given star to the same star again—affected by Nutation only one of the most invariable quantities which nature affords us having a mean value of 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 9.6 seconds.—In years advanced in age.
胡安編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
贝茜手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the other 40 are Lent.
霍华德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- A dozen year,' he told her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Rather a pleasant year on the whole! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- From the year 1902 to 1909, the style of their motorcycle remained substantially the same in appearance. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Twice or thrice in the year, according to her promise, she wrote him letters to Madras, letters all about little Georgy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- His mother had died, years before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- There is no coffin in that tomb; and may it be many, many years, before another name is placed above it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Did not the Communist Manifesto appear many years before Das Kapital? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But how has she lived through all these years? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- This was Brother Alexander--dead two hundred and eighty years. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
編輯:莉齐