weekend
英 [wi?k'end; 'wi?-]
美 ['wik?nd]
- n. 周末，周末休假；周末聚會
- adj. 周末的，周末用的
- vi. 度周末
英文詞源
- weekend (n.)
- also week-end, 1630s, from week + end (n.). Originally a northern word (referring to the period from Saturday noon to Monday morning); it became general after 1878. As an adjective, "only on weekends," it is recorded from 1935. Long weekend attested from 1900; in reference to Great Britain in the period between the world wars, 1944.
雙語例句
- 1. After a three-weekend courtship, Pamela accepted Randolph's proposal of marriage.
- 經過3個周末的追求之后，帕梅拉接受了倫道夫的求婚。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The winner will face the Oakland A's in the playoffs this weekend.
- 獲勝者將在本周末的季后賽中對陣奧克蘭運動者隊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Why don't you and I go away this weekend?
- 不如咱倆這個周末出去度假吧？
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Talks with the teachers' union over the weekend have averted a strike.
- 周末與教師工會舉行的談判避免了一場罷工。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived.
- 本周，一顆燃燒彈炸毀了一棟有60位居民的樓房。
來自柯林斯例句