Year

(noun.) the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; 'a Martian year takes 687 of our days'.

(noun.) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; 'she is 4 years old'; 'in the year 1920'.

(noun.) a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; 'a school year'.

校对:韦恩

• A dozen year,' he told her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Rather a pleasant year on the whole! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• From the year 1902 to 1909, the style of their motorcycle remained substantially the same in appearance. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Twice or thrice in the year, according to her promise, she wrote him letters to Madras, letters all about little Georgy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His mother had died, years before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There is no coffin in that tomb; and may it be many, many years, before another name is placed above it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Did not the Communist Manifesto appear many years before Das Kapital? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But how has she lived through all these years? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• This was Brother Alexander--dead two hundred and eighty years. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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