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| 1 | C a period of 365 days, or 366 in a leap year , divided into 12 months 年，历年，一年时间（指365天或闰年的366天，分为12个月） |
| He lived in Paris for a few years. 他在巴黎住了好几年。 |
| Istarted my job two years ago. 我两年前开始工作。 |
| | 1a | used for talking about age 年龄；岁数 | | years old Their house is only five years old. 他们的房子才建好5年。 | |
| | 1b | used for talking about someone’ s age …岁 | | How can a child of only twelve years of age be expected to know? 怎么能指望一个只有12岁大的孩子会知道呢？ | |
| | 1c | used about a particular period of time , beginning on 1 January and ending on 31 December, or between the first and last dates on some other calendar 年，年份（用于指从1月1日开始至12月31日结束或在其他日历上的第一天和最后一天之间的一段时间） | | We’ re hoping to have the house sold by the end of the year. 我们希望能在年底前把房子卖出去。 | | They’ re showing two films from the year 1977. 他们在放映1977年以来的两部影片。 | | last/next year (=the year before or after the present year) Profits are lower than last year. 去年/明年 | |
| | 1d | used about the period during which an institution operates, or about the system it uses for dividing time 年度；学年 | | the first weeks of the new school year 新学年的前几周 | | the financial/fiscal/tax year a budget for the fiscal year 2002 2002财政年度的预算 | |
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| 2 | years plural a very long time 很久；多年 |
| It wasn’ t until years later that I realized how foolish I’ d been. 直到很久以后，我才意识到我有多愚蠢。 |
| for years He hasn’ t been back to the country for years. 他已经好多年没回到那个国家了。 |
| | 2a | used about a particular period of time in history （历史上的）年代，时代 | | Conditions were very different in the postwar years (=the period after the war) . 战后的情况完全不一样。 | |
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| 3 | C technical the amount of time that a planet takes to travel round the sun 回归年（行星绕太阳转一圈的时间） |
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| - | afirst/second/third etc year BRITISH
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| a student who is in their firstsecondthird etc year at school or university |
| 一年级/二年级/三年级等（学生） |
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| - | not/never in a million years informal
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| used for emphasizing that you think something will not happen or is not true |
| （用于强调）决不 |
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| - | sth puts years on sb informal
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| used for saying that something makes someone seem or feel much older |
| 某物使某人显得(或觉得)苍老 |
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| - | year after year
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| continuously for several years |
| 年复一年；一年又一年地 |
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| - | year by year
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| as time passes |
| 年年；逐年 |
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| The students seemed to grow younger year by year. 这些学生好像一年年地变年轻了。 |
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| - | the year dot informal
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| a time far in the past |
| 很久以前 |
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| - | year on year BRITISH
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| used for talking about situations in which something continues to change or develop every year |
| 每年，年年（用于谈论事情每年持续变化或发展的情况） |
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