核心畫面

Picture the year cut into four equal blocks of three months. quarterly means something lands once in each block — a bill, a report, a meeting. Four beats a year, evenly spaced.

可以想成把一年切成四塊一樣大的三個月。quarterly 就是「每一塊裡出現一次」:一張帳單、一份報告、一場會議,一更多收起可以想成把一年切成四塊一樣大的三個月。quarterly 就是「每一塊裡出現一次」:一張帳單、一份報告、一場會議,一年響四次,間隔平均。

原始詞典資料5 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。

quarterlyadj詞源 1

  • 1

    Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.

    • quarterly rent payments
    • The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.
  • 2

    governmentheraldryhobbies(of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.

    • The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

quarterlynoun詞源 1

  • 1

    A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

    • “We’re hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors … you can’t do this stuff,” FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN this week.

quarterlyadv詞源 2

  • 1

    Once every quarter year (three months).

  • 2

    governmentheraldryhobbiesIn the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.

    • It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […].
    • Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。