单词 | almanac |
释义 | al·ma·nac, almanack old-fashioned /ˈɔːlmənæk $ ˈɒːl-, ˈæl-/ noun [countable] HEa book produced each year containing information about a particular subject, especially a sport, or important dates, times etc 年鉴 SYN yearbook a football almanac 足球年鉴 a nautical almanac 航海年鉴Examples from the Corpusalmanac• If an almanac editor gets ten percent of his predictions right in a given year, he counts it a success.• The times of sunset and sunrise can be proved by reference to an almanac.• Thirteen months of twenty days gave a cycle of 260 days that formed the core of the Maya almanac.• the 1992 World Sports Almanac• You could test him by the almanac.• It looked gre, I thought that, are you happy with the, uh, almanac insert?Origin almanac (1300-1400) Medieval Latin almanach, probably from Arabic al-manakh “the calendar”al·ma·nac nounChineseSyllable Corpus a about particular containing information produced book each year a |
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