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单词 new year's resolution
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New Year's resolution
New Year's resolution n. (also New Year resolution) a resolution made on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day to do or to refrain from doing a specified thing from that time onwards, or to attempt to achieve a particular goal, usually during the coming year.
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1850 E. E. Hale Margaret Percival in Amer. 245 I am here, ready, from this moment to obey. It shall be my New Year's resolution.
1907 Independent (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 48/2 A man will break thru the Decalog, never mind a New Year's resolution, in order to get back to his habit.
1929 I. Gandy Wiltshire Childhood 70 Our New Year resolutions would have lost much of their fine fervour if not made to the sound of the tenor tolling out the old year.
1963 Mind 72 463 Everyone knows how easy it is to make New Year resolutions—the only difficulty is keeping them.
1994 Colorodoan (Fort Collins) 1 Jan. c1/5 Rainguet, an avid mountaineer, has made a New Year's resolution to start climbing the ‘fourteeners’ of California this year.
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