喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈdekeɪd/十年

    A period of ten years.

    decade 就是「十年」這一段時間。dec- 這個開頭可以想成「十」（像 December 本來是羅馬曆的第十個月）。常用來講一段人生階段或歷史時期，例如 the last decade（過去十年）、for decades（好幾十年）。

    示範例句 · Example

    My grandparents have lived in this town for over three decades.

    中文翻譯我的祖父母在這個鎮上住了超過三個十年。

    常見搭配

    • the last/past decade

      過去十年

      the most recent ten years

      Phones have become much smarter over the past decade.

    • for decades

      數十年來

      for many tens of years

      The old clock has worked for decades.

    • the coming decade

      接下來的十年

      the next ten years

      Scientists hope to reach the goal in the coming decade.

    意思相近

    ten years

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English decade, from Old French decade, from Late Latin decās, from Ancient Greek δεκάς 'group of ten', from δέκα 'ten'.

經古法文來自希臘文 dekás「十個一組」，源自 déka「十」。

Wiktionary

Picture ten years taken as one block — long enough that fashions, prices and the way people live all look different at the far end of it. A decade is the unit history and news reach for when a year is too short to show a change.

可以想成：十年被當成一整塊來看——長到走到那一頭時，流行、物價、生活方式都不一樣了。當「一年」太短、看不出變化時，歷史和新聞就會改用 decade 這個單位。

decades

意思相近

ten years

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

decadenoun/ˈdɛkeɪd/

  • 1

    A group, set, or series of ten , particularly

    • a decade of soldiers
  • 2

    A group, set, or series of ten

    • The 1960s was a turbulent decade.
    • I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade!
  • 3

    historyhuman-sciencessciencesA group, set, or series of ten

    • The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.
  • 4

    archaicliteraryA group, set, or series of ten

  • 5

    CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA group, set, or series of ten

  • 6

    A group, set, or series of ten

  • 7

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA group, set, or series of ten

  • 8

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

    • There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。