| 单词 | turn of the year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturn of the year turn of the year n. (originally) the end of winter and the beginning of spring; (now usually) the beginning of the calendar year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > end of winter or beginning of spring turn of the year1637 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 16 June in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 66 We may sing upon lucks head before hand, even in our winter-storme, in the expectation of a summer-sun at the turn of the yeer. 1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour lxxi, in New Monthly Mag. Apr. 484 Who doesn't know the chilling feel of an English spring, or rather of a day at the turn of the year before there is any spring? 1947 W. H. Lewis in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 140 If they reached the port at the turn of the year,..the galleys, stripped to their hulls, would be emerging from their winter hibernation. 1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head xiii. 120 I brought to mind that it was New Year's eve. Some nearer bells took up the peal... Soon it would be the turn of the year. 2006 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 29 Dec. 22 Alistair Anderson..and Mike Tickell (vocals) join rapper dancers and choirs to celebrate the turn of the year. < as lemmas |
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