day

1. N-COUNT A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week. (一周中的) 一天

And it has snowed almost every day for the past week. 而且過(guò)去的一周幾乎每天都在下雪。

2. N-COUNT You can refer to a particular period in history as a particular day or as particular days. 時(shí)期

He began to talk about the Ukraine of his uncle's day. 他開(kāi)始談?wù)撍迨迥莻€(gè)年代的烏克蘭。

...his early days of struggle and deep poverty. …他早年的奮斗和極度窮困時(shí)期。

3. it is early days→see early

4. at the end of the day→see end

5. the good old days→see old

6. N-VAR Day is the time when it is light, or the time when you are up and doing things. 白天

Twenty-seven million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness. 由于工傷事故和疾病，每年損失掉2700萬(wàn)個(gè)工作日。

She gives herself one day a week off, on Thursdays. 她每周放自己一天假，在星期四。

7. N-COUNT the period of time, the solar day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to the sun. The mean solar day is the average length of the apparent solar day and is some four minutes (3 minutes 56.5 seconds of sidereal time) longer than the sidereal day 太陽(yáng)日

8. N-COUNT the period of time, the sidereal day, during which the earth makes one complete revolution on its axis relative to a particular star. The mean sidereal day lasts 23 hours 56 minutes 4.1 seconds of the mean solar day 恒星日

9. PHRASE If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping. 日復(fù)一日

The newspaper job had me doing the same thing day after day. 這份報(bào)業(yè)的工作讓我日復(fù)一日地做同一件事情。

10. PHRASE If you say that something happens day in, day out or day in and day out, you mean that it happens regularly over a long period of time. 天天[v PHR]

I used to drink coffee day in, day out. 過(guò)去我每天喝咖啡。

11. PHRASE In this day and age means in modern times. 在現(xiàn)代

Even in this day and age the old attitudes persist. 即使在今天，一些陳舊的觀念仍然存在。

12. PHRASE If you say that something has seen better days, you mean that it is old and in poor condition. 破舊

The tweed jacket she wore had seen better days. 她穿的那件斜紋軟呢夾克衫已經(jīng)十分破舊了。

13. PHRASE If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful. 結(jié)束工作; 收工

Faced with mounting debts, the decision to call it a day was inevitable. 面對(duì)不斷增加的債務(wù)，停工的決定是不可避免的。

14. PHRASE If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy. 使某人非常高興[非正式]

Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day. 來(lái)，比爾，給湯姆寄張卡片讓他高興一下。

15. PHRASE One day or some day or one of these days means at some time in the future. 有朝一日

I too dreamed of living in Dallas one day. 我也曾夢(mèng)想有朝一日能住在達(dá)拉斯。

I hope some day you will find the woman who will make you happy. 我希望有一天你會(huì)找到能讓你幸福的女人。

16. PHRASE If you say that something happened the other day, you mean that it happened a few days ago. 幾天前

I phoned your office the other day. 幾天前，我往你的辦公室打過(guò)電話。

17. PHRASE If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful. 扭轉(zhuǎn)敗局

...this story about how he saved the day at his daughter's birthday party. …關(guān)于他如何在女兒的生日聚會(huì)上扭轉(zhuǎn)局面的故事。

18. PHRASE If something happens from day to day or day by day, it happens each day. 每天

Your needs can differ from day to day. 你的需要可能每天都在變化。

19. PHRASE If it is a month or a year to the day since a particular thing happened, it is exactly a month or a year since it happened. (日期) 正好

It was January 19, a year to the day since he had arrived in Singapore. 那是1月19日，他到新加坡正好滿1年。

20. PHRASE To this day means up until and including the present time. 至今

The controversy continues to this day. 這場(chǎng)爭(zhēng)論直到今天仍在繼續(xù)。

21.  PHRASE If you say that a task is all in a day's work for someone, you mean that they do not mind doing it although it may be difficult, because it is part of their job or because they often do it. 家常便飯

For war reporters, dodging snipers' bullets is all in a day's work. 對(duì)于戰(zhàn)地記者來(lái)說(shuō)，躲避狙擊手的子彈是家常便飯。

22.  your day in court→see court