| 单词 | seventeen-day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseventeen-day seventeen-day adj. (often 17-day) (a) lasting for seventeen days; (b) recurring on the seventeenth day (now rare); (c) seventeen days old. ΚΠ 1847 Rep. 16th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1846 i. 124 It is probable that three waves transited during the seventeen-day undulation [in barometric pressure]. 1863 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 462 It [sc. relapsing fever] is also sometimes described under the various names of ‘five’ or ‘seven-day fever’, ‘seventeen-day fever’, ‘bilious remittent fever’, [etc.]. 1915 C. F. W. McClure Devel. Lymphatic Syst. Fishes (Mem. Wistar Inst. Anat. & Biol. No. 4) 54 Figure 6..represents a reconstruction of a seventeen-day steelhead trout embryo. 1957 F. O'Connor Let. 2 Nov. in Habit of Being (1980) ii. 251 It is a 17-day pilgrimage with stops. 2006 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 3 Sept. (Mag.) 5/3 After a 17-day sojourn in Scotland, you will be, as they say in Auchinblae, jiggered. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。