month
/mʌnθ/noun
(亦作calendar month)
1- each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided月:
the first six months of 1992.
1992年的前6个月
it was the end of the month.
那是月末。
1.1
- a period of time between the same dates in successive calendar months一个月的时间:
the president's rule was extended for six more months from March 3.
总统的任期从3月3日起延长6个月。
1.2
- a period of 28 days or four weeks二十八天, 四周。
1.3
- a lunar month太阴月, 朔望月。
短语
a month of Sundays
- informal a very long, seemingly endless period of time〈非正式〉漫长的时间:
no one will find them in a month of Sundays.
在很长时间里, 没人会发现他们。
词源
Old English mōnath, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maand and German Monat, also to MOON.