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/ˈdekeɪd/
A period of ten years.
十年
複數 decades
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料9 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。
decadenoun/ˈdɛkeɪd/
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A group, set, or series of ten , particularly
- a decade of soldiers
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A group, set, or series of ten
- The 1960s was a turbulent decade.
- I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade!
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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.
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archaicliteraryA group, set, or series of ten
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA group, set, or series of ten
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A group, set, or series of ten
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA group, set, or series of ten
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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
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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.
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。