核心畫面

Think of a wall calendar and one whole page on it. You are not counting off thirty days on your fingers; you are taking the block the calendar has already drawn, from its first day to its last. The block is not always the same size — February is short, July is long — and that uneven block is the point of the word.

可以想成日曆上完整的一格。不是自己用手指數三十天,而是直接把日曆已經畫好的那一塊整個拿走,從第一天到最後一天。這一塊更多收起可以想成日曆上完整的一格。不是自己用手指數三十天,而是直接把日曆已經畫好的那一塊整個拿走,從第一天到最後一天。這一塊大小還不一定:二月短、七月長。這個「照日曆整塊算、而且長短不固定」的感覺,就是 calendar 這個字加上去的原因。

Two branches

日曆上的一個月份

核心畫面的直接用法:整格就是一月、二月那樣的一個月份。

noun · B1

One of the 12 named months of the year, counted from its first day to its last day. Because the months are not the same length, a calendar month can be 28, 29, 30, or 31 days long.

整個日曆月

從某一天到下個月同一天

同樣是照日曆數,只是起點不一定在一號,而是在你指的那一天。

noun · B2

A period of one month counted from a date in one month to the same date in the next month — for example from 15 March to 15 April.

整整一個月的期間