year
/jɜː(r)/noun
1
- the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun年（地球绕太阳转一周的时间）。
- The length of the year depends on the manner of calculation. For ordinary purposes the important period is the tropical year （also called astronomical year, equinoctial year,or solar year） which is the time between successive spring or autumn equinoxes, or winter or summer solstices, roughly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds in length. This period thus marks the regular cycle of the seasons. See also SIDEREAL YEAR, ANOMALISTIC YEAR.
2
- （亦作calendar year或civil year）the period of 365 days (or 366 days in leap years) starting from the first of January, used for reckoning time in ordinary affairs年度。
2.1
- a period of the same length as this starting at any point（从任何时间算起的）一年时间：
the year starting July 1.
从7月1号开始计算的一年。
2.2
- with adj. such a period regarded in terms of the quality of produce, typically wine（尤指葡萄酒的）年份：
single-vineyard wine of a good year.
一个好年份单座葡萄园酿制的葡萄酒。
2.3
- a similar period used for reckoning time according to other calendars（根据其他日历计算的）类似年度：
the Muslim year.
穆斯林年。
3
one's years
one's age or time of life岁数, 年纪：she had a composure well beyond her years.
她的冷静远远超乎她的年龄。
4
years
informal a very long time; ages〈非正式〉多年; 许久, 很久：it's going to take years to put that right.
要把它改正过来要花上很多年的时间。
5
- a set of students grouped together as being of roughly similar ages, mostly entering a school or college in the same academic year年级：
most of the girls in my year were leaving school at the end of the term.
和我同年级的大多数女孩将在本学期末毕业离校。
短语
in the year of grace（或Our Lord）-
- in the year - AD在公元…年：
he was murdered in the year of grace 1618.
他于公元1618年被谋杀。
ORIGIN: year of grace, suggested by medieval Latin anno gratiae, used by chroniclers.
- of the year
- a person or thing chosen as outstanding in a specified field or of a specified kind in a particular year本年度最杰出的人（或事）：
the sports personality of the year.
本年度最杰出的体育人物。
put years on（或take years off）someone
- make someone feel or look older (or younger)使某人感觉（或看起来）更老（或更年轻）。
a year and a day
- the period specified in some legal matters to ensure the completion of a full year一年零一日的期限（为确保某些法律事务整整一年的终止期限的用语）。
the year dot
- 见DOT1.
year in, year out
- continuously or repeatedly over a period of years年复一年, 一年又一年：
they rented the same bungalow year in, year out.
他们年年租用同一栋平房。
词源
Old English gē （a）r, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jaar and German Jahr, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hōra 'season'.