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
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
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