decade
decade 英 [ˈdekeɪd] 美 [ˈdɛkˌed, dɛˈked]
n. 十年，十年期；十
名词复数:decades
- 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.
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- n. 十年，十年期；十
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1. We hope to have test flights in this decade.
我们希望在这十年进行试验飞行。
- decade (n.) mid-15c., "ten parts" (of anything; originally in reference to the books of Livy), from Middle French décade (14c.), from Late Latin decadem (nominative decas), from Greek dekas (genitive dekados) "group of ten," from deka "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten"). Meaning "period of ten years" is 1590s in English.
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