day /deɪ/ CET4 TEM4

• 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

  例：

  And it has snowed almost every day for the past week.

  而且过去的一周几乎每天都在下雪。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT You can refer to a particular period in history as a particular day or as particular days. 时期

  例：

  He began to talk about the Ukraine of his uncle's day.

  他开始谈论他叔叔那个年代的乌克兰。

  例：

  ...his early days of struggle and deep poverty.

  …他早年的奋斗和极度穷困时期。

• 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

  例：

  Twenty-seven million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness.

  由于工伤事故和疾病，每年损失掉2700万个工作日。

  例：

  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 太阳日

• 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. 日复一日

  例：

  The newspaper job had me doing the same thing day after day.

  这份报业的工作让我日复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]

  例：

  I used to drink coffee day in, day out.

  过去我每天喝咖啡。

• 11. 

  PHRASE In this day and age means in modern times. 在现代

  例：

  Even in this day and age the old attitudes persist.

  即使在今天，一些陈旧的观念仍然存在。

• 12. 

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

  例：

  The tweed jacket she wore had seen better days.

  她穿的那件斜纹软呢夹克衫已经十分破旧了。

• 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. 结束工作; 收工

  例：

  Faced with mounting debts, the decision to call it a day was inevitable.

  面对不断增加的债务，停工的决定是不可避免的。

• 14. 

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

  例：

  Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day.

  来，比尔，给汤姆寄张卡片让他高兴一下。

• 15. 

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

  例：

  I too dreamed of living in Dallas one day.

  我也曾梦想有朝一日能住在达拉斯。

  例：

  I hope some day you will find the woman who will make you happy.

  我希望有一天你会找到能让你幸福的女人。

• 16. 

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

  例：

  I phoned your office the other day.

  几天前，我往你的办公室打过电话。

• 17. 

  PHRASE If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful. 扭转败局

  例：

  ...this story about how he saved the day at his daughter's birthday party.

  …关于他如何在女儿的生日聚会上扭转局面的故事。

• 18. 

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

  例：

  Your needs can differ from day to day.

  你的需要可能每天都在变化。

• 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

  例：

  It was January 19, a year to the day since he had arrived in Singapore.

  那是1月19日，他到新加坡正好满1年。

• 20. 

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

  例：

  The controversy continues to this day.

  这场争论直到今天仍在继续。

• 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. 家常便饭

  例：

  For war reporters, dodging snipers' bullets is all in a day's work.

  对于战地记者来说，躲避狙击手的子弹是家常便饭。

• 22. 

  your day in court →see court