anniversary
英 [?n?'v??s(?)r?]
美 [,?n?'v?s?ri]
助記提示
1、anni- + vers- + -ary.
2、含義：returning every year.
中文詞源
anniversary 周年紀(jì)念日詞根ann, 年。詞根verse,轉(zhuǎn)。
英文詞源
- anniversary
- anniversary: [13] Like annual, anniversary is based ultimately on Latin annus ‘year’. The underlying idea it contains is of ‘yearly turning’ or ‘returning’; the Latin adjective anniversārius was based on annus and versus ‘turning’ (related to a wide range of English words, from verse and convert to vertebra and vertigo). This was used in phrases such as diēs anniversāria ‘day returning every year’, and eventually became a noun in its own right.
=> annual, convert, verse - anniversary (n.)
- early 13c., originally especially of the day of a person's death, from Medieval Latin anniversarium, from Latin anniversarius (adj.) "returning annually," from annus (genitive anni) "year" (see annual (adj.)) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus). The adjective came to be used as a noun in Church Latin as anniversaria (dies) in reference to saints' days. An Old English word for "anniversary" (n.) was myndd?g, literally "mind-day."
雙語例句
- 1. Campaigners lit scores of bonfires in ceremonies to mark the anniversary.
- 參加運(yùn)動(dòng)的人們?cè)诟鞣N儀式上點(diǎn)起一垛垛篝火以紀(jì)念周年慶典。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The Vietnamese government has fixed on May 19th to celebrate his anniversary.
- 越南政府已經(jīng)決定于5月19日慶祝他的誕辰。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. It was the fortieth anniversary of the death of the composer.
- 這是該作曲家逝世40周年紀(jì)念日。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.
- 明年將是禁酒令廢除60周年。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The bank celebrates its hundredth anniversary in December.
- 這家銀行將于12月慶祝其成立100周年。
來自柯林斯例句