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/dɪˈsembər/ · /dɪˈsembə/
The 12th and last month of the year. It comes after November and before January, which is the first month of the next year.
十二月
複數 Decembers
核心畫面
Think of the last box on the calendar: the twelfth month, the one you are living in when the year runs out. November is behind it, and when it ends the number of the year itself changes and January starts the count again.
可以想成日曆上最後一格：一年十二個月走到底的那一格。前面是十一月，走完這一格，年份的數字就換了，一月從頭再數起。所以…更多收起
可以想成日曆上最後一格：一年十二個月走到底的那一格。前面是十一月，走完這一格，年份的數字就換了，一月從頭再數起。所以 December 帶著的不只是「第十二個月」這個位置，還有一種收尾的感覺——事情要在這個月結算完、行事曆到這裡就沒有下一頁了。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。
Decembername/dɪˈsɛmbə/
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The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
- Holonyms: calendar year; year
- Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes in my blood; and he that vvalkes / VVithout his vvooden third legge, is never old.
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rareA female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].
- But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."
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A surname.
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。