英语单词 | decade |
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英美音标 | 英 ['dekeɪd] 美 ['dekeɪd] |
中文释义 | n.十年 |
英语例句 | (1) Prices have risen steadily during the past decade. (2) Several decades have elapsed since I graduated from the college. (3) I believed that this struggle is going to go on and it might well be decided in the next decade. |
中文例句 | (1) 在过去十年里,物价一直在上涨。 (2) 我大学毕业已数十年了。 (3) 我相信这一对抗还将会持续下去,并可能在下一个十年中得出结果。 |
vocabulary简明 | She was so nervous to see her high school sweetheart at their reunion: it had been a decade (ten years) since she'd seen him at graduation, and she still got butterflies thinking about him. |
vocabulary扩展 | A decade is a period of ten years. Decade contains dec, which is used in words that have to do with tens. The Marty Paich Dectet was a band with ten players. A decahedron is a shape with ten faces. And the decimal system is based on the number ten. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]十年,十年期(尤指一个年代) A decade is a period of ten years, especially one that begins with a year ending in 0, for example 1980 to 1989.
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