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/ˌænɪˈvɜːrsəri/ · /ˌænɪˈvɜːsəri/
A date when you remember or celebrate something special that happened on the same date in an earlier year.
週年紀念（日）
複數 anniversaries
核心畫面
Picture the calendar coming round to the same square again. Something happened on this day — a wedding, an opening, a loss — and every year the date arrives once more, carrying that earlier day with it. The word names the date, not the event: the return trip, not the first journey.
可以想成：月曆轉了一圈，又走回同一個格子。某一年的這一天發生過一件事——結婚、開幕、失去某個人——而每一年這個日期都…更多收起
可以想成：月曆轉了一圈，又走回同一個格子。某一年的這一天發生過一件事——結婚、開幕、失去某個人——而每一年這個日期都會再來一次，把當年那天一起帶回來。要注意這個字指的是「那個日期」，不是當年那件事本身：它講的是繞回來的那一次，不是最初的那一次。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
anniversarynoun/ˌænɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/
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A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
- Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.
- To some extent all anniversaries derive their significance from testing, from contemplating this observation, especially when it concerns cultures as radically different as those of Aboriginal Australia before first contact (and since), and of Georgian England.
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A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.
- We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.
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A day subsequent in time to a given event by some significant period other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
- The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.
- In a thinly veiled threat to Saddam Hussein, President George Bush marked the six-month anniversary of September 11th by reiterating America's commitment to prevent rogue countries obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。