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Decade Ten I Period 英 Dekeɪd] 美 Dekeɪd N.十年

英语单词 decade
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
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[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.
  • ...the last decade of the nineteenth century.

    19 世纪的最后 10 年

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