week

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n. 星期, 周

发音

UK /wiːk/
US /wiːk/
US /wiːk/

词形变化

weeks 复数 weeks

别名

wk wk. weeke

教材释义与例句

名词

周，星期

a period of seven days and nights, usually measured in Britain from Monday to Sunday and in the US from Sunday to Saturday

I can't see you this week.

我这星期不能见你。

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Any period of seven consecutive days.

    Holonyms: megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

    Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day, weekday < weekend

  2. 2.

    A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.

    星期

    礼拜

    周

  3. 3.

    A period of five days beginning with Monday.

  4. 4.

    A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.

    A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

  5. 5.

    A date seven days after (sometimes before) the specified day.

    I'll see you Thursday week. [a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]

    The wedding is tomorrow week. [a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]

interj.
  1. 1.

    The squeal of a pig.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

hebdomad workweek

上位词 4

period period of time time period worktime

下位词 5

shiva rag rag week shibah shivah

部分词 5

weekend midweek calendar day civil day workweek

整体词 2

month calendar month

相关短语

week in, week out week of Saturdays week of Sundays a week from next Tuesday a week is a long time in politics every day of the week and twice on Sunday every day of the week and twice on Sundays any day of the week and twice on Sunday any day of the week and twice on Sundays from week to week two week millionaire two week millionaires rag week [网络] 抹布周 dead week freshers' week

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyg-der. Proto-Germanic *wikǭ Proto-West Germanic *wikā Old English wiċe Middle English wyke English week From Middle English wyke, weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“sequence; week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, curve”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ouk, oulk (“week”), Yola wick, wik (“week”), North Frisian waag, Week, weg (“week”), Saterland Frisian Wiek, Wíek (“week”), West Frisian wike (“week”), Bavarian Wochn (“week”), Cimbrian boch, bòcha (“week”), Dutch week (“week”), German Woche (“week”), German Low German Week (“week”), Limburgish waek, Wéëk (“week”), Luxembourgish Woch (“week”), Mòcheno boch (“week”), Vilamovian woch (“week”), Yiddish וואָך (vokh, “week”), Danish uge (“week”), Elfdalian wiku, wikå (“week”), Faroese and Icelandic vika (“week”), Jamtish vuku (“week”), Norwegian Bokmål uke (“week”), Norwegian Nynorsk veke, vika, viku, vukku, vuku (“week”), Scanian uga (“week”), Swedish vecka (“week”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “sequence; week”); also Cornish gwigh (“periwinkles, whelks”), Irish faocha, faochóg (“periwinkle”), Latin vicis (“alteration, turn; time”), Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō, “to yield”), Albanian vig (“bier, litter, stretcher”), Northern Kurdish avêtin, avitin, avîtin, havêtin, havîtin (“to cast, hurl, throw”), Persian آویختَن (âvixtan, “to hang, suspend”), بیختن (bēxtan / bixtan, “to sieve, sift”). Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

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