red letter day
短语节日,假日,大喜日
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词形变化
red letter days
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别名
red-letter day
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A day marked in red on calendars; a church feast day.
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2.
A particularly significant day; a day of personal or sectarian celebration.
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里程碑
习语Monday was a red letter day for her. She accomplished a lot and had fun doing it.
We saw losses for days in a row, but Black Tuesday was the worst red letter day of them all.
2010, Eric Braun, Doris Day, Hachette, Revised and updated edition, unnumbered page, That was, indeed, a red-letter day in my filmgoing life, and a red-letter day in my literary life was when I was asked to write a new biography of Doris Day.
词汇关系
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词源
An allusion to the practice, dating to classical antiquity, of marking important days in red on calendars.
来源：wiktionary