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单词 almanac
释义
almanacal‧ma‧nac, almanack old-fashioned /ˈɔːlmənæk $ ˈɒːl-, ˈæl-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINalmanac
Origin:
1300-1400 Medieval Latin almanach, probably from Arabic al-manakh ‘the calendar’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the 1992 World Sports Almanac
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • If an almanac editor gets ten percent of his predictions right in a given year, he counts it a success.
  • It looked gre, I thought that, are you happy with the, uh, almanac insert?
  • The times of sunset and sunrise can be proved by reference to an almanac.
  • Thirteen months of twenty days gave a cycle of 260 days that formed the core of the Maya almanac.
  • You could test him by the almanac.
a book produced each year containing information about a particular subject, especially a sport, or important dates, times etc SYN  yearbook:  a football almanac a nautical almanac
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