新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

day

英 [deɪ]

[NOUN]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

days
1. [C 可数名词] （一周中的）一天
A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.
双语例句
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. [C 可数名词] 时期
You can refer to a particular period in history as a particular day or as particular days.
双语例句
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.
他早年努力奋斗、一贫如洗的日子。
3. [C, U 有变体名词] 白天
Day is the time when it is light, or the time when you are up and doing things.
双语例句
例：
Twenty-seven million working days are lost each year due to work accidents and sickness.
每年有2700万个工作日由于工伤事故和病假而损失掉了。
例：
She gives herself one day a week off, on Thursdays.
她每个周四给自己放一天假。

PHRASE. 习语

day after day
1. 日复一日
If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
双语例句
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着同样的事情。
day in, day out
1. 天天
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.
双语例句
例：
I used to drink coffee day in, day out.
过去我每天喝咖啡。
in this day and age
1. 在现代
In this day and age means in modern times.
双语例句
例：
Even in this day and age the old attitudes persist.
即使在今天，这些陈旧的观念仍然存在。
have seen better days
1. 破旧
If you say that something has seen better days, you mean that it is old and in poor condition.
双语例句
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。
call it a day
1. 结束工作 , 收工
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.
双语例句
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。
make someone's day
1. 使某人非常高兴
If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
双语例句
例：
Come on, Bill. Send Tom a card and make his day.
来吧，比尔，给汤姆寄张卡片让他高兴一下。
one day , some day , one of these days
1. 有朝一日
One day or some day or one of these days means at some time in the future.
双语例句
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。
the other day
1. 几天前
If you say that something happened the other day, you mean that it happened a few days ago.
双语例句
例：
I phoned your office the other day.
几天前，我往你的办公室打过电话。
save the day
1. 扭转败局
If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful.
双语例句
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。
from day to day
1. 每天
If something happens from day to day or day by day, it happens each day.
双语例句
例：
Your needs can differ from day to day.
你的需要可能每天都在变化。
to the day
1. （日期）正好
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.
双语例句
例：
It was January 19, a year to the day since he had arrived in Singapore.
那天是1月19日，他到新加坡正好满1年的日子。
to this day
1. 至今
To this day means up until and including the present time.
双语例句
例：
The controversy continues to this day.
这场争论直到今天仍在继续。
all in a day's work
1. 家常便饭
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.
双语例句
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。