蜘蛛背部图案大全图片:time words

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solar/'sEulE/ year   the time it takes the earth to go around the sun once, approximately 365 1/4 days

light/lait/ year  the distance that light travels in one year  lunar/'lu:nE/  month  the average time between one new moon and the next (about 29 1/2 days)

calendar/'kQlindE/ year the period of time from 1 january to the 31 december in the same year

the lunar calendar  solar calendar             cen·tury/'sentSEri/  a period of 100 years

year/jiE/ the period from 1 january to 31 december  that is 365 or 366 days , divided into 12 months

month/mVnT/ any of the twelve periods of time into which the year is diveded,for example may or june

day/dei/ a period of 24 hours

day·time/deitaim/ the period during the day between when it gets light and the time when it get dark

night/nait/ the time of darkness between one day and the next usually when people sleep

nightfall/'naitSO:l/ the time in the evening when it becomes dark

daybreak/'deibreik/  dawn/dO:n/ the time of day when light first appears

sea·son/'si:zn/ any of the four main periods of the year: spring,summer, autumn/fall and winter

the dry/rainy/wet season  : a  period of the year in tropical countries when it is either very dry or it rains a lot

spring/spriN/  the season between winter and summer when plants begin to grow

summer/'sVmE/ the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and autumn

autumn/'OtEm/ the seasom of the year between summer and winter

winter/'wintE/ the coldest season of the year ,between autumn and spring

january/'dZQnjuEri/  fabruary         march/ma:tS/   april/'eiprEl/       may/mei/   june/dZu:n/ july/dZu'lai/

august  september/sep'tembE/  october/Ok'tEubE/  november/nEu'vembE/  december/di'sembE/

new year's day  the spring festival   lantern festival

valentine's day   international working women's day

tree planting day  tomb-sweeping day

chinese youth day   all april  fool's day

 dragon-boat festival    international labour day  mother's day     father's day

international children's day  anniversary of the founding of the chinese commounist party

double-seventh day  army day

 mid-autumn festival      the double ninth festival     teacher's day        national day  

the laba rice porridge festival  christmas

monday  tuesday wednesday  thursday   friday saturday sunday

weekday: any day except saturday and sunday

weekend: saturday and sunday

the day before yesterday   yesterday today tomorrow   the day after tomorrow

the other day     some other day = another day         in these days              in the days of old

in this day and age : now, in the modern world, these days used to talk about the present,especially when you

are comparing it with the past

to this day:even now ,when a lot of time has passed  

one of these days: before a long time has passed

before long (=soon)  long before =long long ago

at long last: after a long time 0r finally

at the longest : not longer than the particur time given

 

hour/'auE/ 60 minutes; one of the 24 parts that a day is divided into

quarter/'kwO:tE/  one of four equal parts of sth

                       a period of 15 minutes either before or after an hour

half/ha:f/ either of two equal parts into which sth is or can be divided

minute/'minit/ each of the 60 parts of an hour that are equal to 60 seconds

second /'sekEnd/  a unit for measuring time