birthday
n. 生日
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教材释义与例句
生日，诞辰；诞生的日子
your birthday is a day that is an exact number of years after the day you were born
It's my birthday on Monday.
星期一是我的生日。
My aunt called to wish me a happy birthday.
我姑妈打电话来祝我生日快乐。
Anne's birthday party
安妮的生日派对
释义与例句
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The anniversary of the day on which someone is born.
When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.
I'll be thirty-seven (years old) next birthday.
1903, L. Frank Baum, The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People, The Fifth Surprise: The Monarch Celebrates His Birthday, One of the Wise Men said the King was born in February; another declared it was in May, and a third figured the great event happened in October. So the King issued a royal decree that he should have three birthdays every year, in order to be on the safe side; and whenever he happened to think of it he put in an odd birthday or two for luck.
1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 9: The pride of Perks, "And we thought we'd make a nice birthday for him. He's been so awfully jolly decent to us, you know, Mother," said Peter, "and we agreed that next bun-day we'd ask you if we could."
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The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
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The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
出生日期
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A birthday party.
I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.
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To celebrate one's birthday.
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From Middle English birthdai, birtheday, from Old English ġebyrddæġ (“birthday”), influenced by Old Norse burðr, equivalent to birth + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Gebuursdai (“birthday”), Dutch geboortedag (“birthday”), Low German Geboortsdag (“birthday”), German Geburtstag (“birthday”), Norwegian bursdag, gebursdag (“birthday”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English nativitee (“birth, nativity, birthday”), from Old French nativité, nativited, from Latin nātīvitas.
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