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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- calendar ['kælɪndə]
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1.
n
a system for determining the beginning, length, and order of years and their divisions - See also Gregorian calendar Jewish calendar Julian calendar Revolutionary calendar Roman calendar
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2.
n
a table showing any such arrangement, esp as applied to one or more successive years
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3.
n
a list, register, or schedule of social events, pending court cases, appointments, etc
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4.
vt.
[tr]
to enter in a calendar; schedule; register
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5.
vt.
[Etymology]
C13: via Norman French from Medieval Latin kalend
a rium account book, from Kalendae thecalends , when interest on debts became due
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1.
n
a system for determining the beginning, length, and order of years and their divisions - See also Gregorian calendar Jewish calendar Julian calendar Revolutionary calendar Roman calendar
Examples
- calendar art
- 通俗挂历美术 → calendar
- a calendar girl
- 挂历女郎(通俗挂历上常见的少女照片) → calendar
- to reform a calendar
- 改革历法 → reform
- My calendar is kicking around somewhere in my desk.
- 我的日历一定是给扔到桌子里的某个角落了。 → calendar
- a desk calendar → desk
- 他手中的日历不是普通的日历, 而是回历。
- The calendar in his hands is not a common one, but a Moslem calendar. → 回历
- 阴历用干支纪年。
- In the lunar calendar, the years are designated by the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. → 纪年
- 这国的历法跟别国不一样。
- This country has a different calendar. → 历法
- 从日历上撕下一页
- tear a page from the calendar → 撕
- 阴历
- lunar calendar → 历
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