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  • Conjugation : past  dated ; ing  dating
  • Derivatives : n  dater ; adj  datable ; adj  dateable
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

date [deɪt]
  1. 1. noun [c] (particular day) 日期
  2. 2. noun (meeting with friend) 约会
  3. 3. noun (friend) 约会对象
  4. 4. noun (fruit) 海枣
  5. 5. vt. [+event] [ object] (establish date of) 确定…的年代
  6. 6. vt. [+letter] [ cheque] (write date on) 给…注明日期
  7. 7. vt. [+person] (go out with) 和…约会
  8. 8. vi. (go out with sb) 约会
  9. 9. vi. (become old-fashioned) 过时
    what's the date today?, what's today's date?
    今天几号?
    date of birth
    出生日期
    to date
    迄今
    to be out of date
    落伍
  10. 10. vi. (expired) 过期
    to be up to date
    时新
    to bring sth up to date
    [+correspondence,information] 更新某物
    to bring sb up to date
    告知某人最新动态
    to keep up to date
    紧随形势
    to keep sb up to date (with sth)
    告知某人( 某事的 )最新动态
    it was dated 5th July
    [+letter] 信上的日期是7月5日

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

date [deɪt]
  1. 1. n.[c] 日期日子
    What is the date of the networking event?
    交流聚会日期是哪天?
    What is the date today?
    今天是几号?
  2. 2. n.[c] 约会对象
    Her date stood her up again!
    她的约会对象又放她鸽子
    His date never stopped talking.
    他的约会者喋喋不休
  3. 3. n.[c] 约会约见
    I have a date with my manager this evening.
    今晚我和经理要开个会。
    She asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date.
    她问在约会结束如何避免接吻
  4. 4. n.[c] 某天,某日
    The interest will be paid after six months from the date of opening.
    利息将会在起始日开始六个月之后支付
    They hoped to get together at an early date.
    他们期望能够早日相聚
  5. 5. n.[c] 目前眼下当前
    All of the invoices have been paid in full to date.
    所有发票迄今全部付清
    We haven't heard from them to date.
    目前为止他们杳无音信
    They are up to date.
    它们都是最新的。
  6. 6. n.[c] 起止年份
    This is the date that the first man walked on the moon.
    这是人类首次登月日子
    He tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class.
    试图记住历史课上讲到的所有日期
  7. 7. n.[c] 日期日子
    The date for the trial has been set.
    开庭日子已定好。
    The date of the election is set by law.
    选举的日期是由法律确定的
  8. 8. n.[u]
    My friend handed me a container filled with dates.
    朋友递给我一个篮子装满了枣。
  9. 9. vt. 赴约,与……约会
    Once she stopped dating Ryan, things got easier.
    一旦不再和莱恩约会,事情变得简单了。
  10. 10. vt. 加盖日期邮戳
    I was stuck with the job of dating envelopes.
    继续着往信封上注明日期工作
    The package is dated November 24.
    这个包裹日期为11月24日。
  11. 11. vi. 鉴定……的年代确定……的时期
    A few of the buildings in town dates from the early 19th century.
    城里一些建筑的历史可以追溯到19世纪早期
    Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings.
    科学家往往无法确定考古发现物或史前发现物的确切时间
  12. 12. vt. 与……频繁约会,与……恋爱
    I was dating a famous actress.
    我正和一个著名女演员交往
  13. 13. vi. 注明日期记下日期
    As coins were mass-produced, they can often be accurately dated.
    硬币大批量生产的,因此总能判断它们的日期
    She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated.
    她是星期一写的信,但她却把日期写为星期六以便隐藏她把事情耽搁了这一事实

Collins English-English Dictionary

date [deɪt]
  1. 1. n a specified day of the month
    today's date is October 27
  2. 2. n the particular day or year of an event
    the date of the Norman Conquest was 1066
  3. 3. n [plural] the years of a person's birth and death or of the beginning and end of an event or period
  4. 4. n an inscription on a coin, letter, etc, stating when it was made or written
  5. 5. n an appointment for a particular time, esp with a person to whom one is sexually or romantically attached
    she has a dinner date
  6. 6. n the person with whom the appointment is made
  7. 7. n the present moment; now (esp in the phrases to date, up to date)
  8. 8. vt. [tr] to mark (a letter, coin, etc) with the day, month, or year
  9. 9. vt. [tr] to assign a date of occurrence or creation to
  10. 10. vi. [intr; foll by from or back to] to have originated (at a specified time)
    his decline dates from last summer
  11. 11. vt. [tr] to reveal the age of
    that dress dates her
  12. 12. vt. to make or become old-fashioned
    some good films hardly date at all
  13. 13. vt. [Spoken] [chiefly US and Canadian] to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone of the opposite sex)
  14. 14. vt. to accompany (a member of the opposite sex) on a date
  15. 15. vt. [Etymology] C14: from Old French, from Latin dare to give, as in the phrase epistula data Romae letter handed over at Rome
date [deɪt]
  1. 1. n the fruit of the date palm, having sweet edible flesh and a single large woody seed
  2. 2. n short for date palm
  3. 3. n [Etymology] C13: from Old French, from Latin, from Greek daktulos finger

Examples

cutoff date
限定日期
a given date
约定的日期
a date two weeks off
两周后的日期
the date when school begins
开学日期
Jimmy and Kate set the date of the wedding.
吉米和凯特定下了举办婚礼的时间。

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