英汉词典

week 基本解释

• n. 周，星期

week 词态变化

week 中文词源

来自PIE*weik,转，继任，词源同vicarious,vice-president. 用于指星期。

week 英文词源

week

week: [OE] Week evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *wikōn, which also produced German woche, Dutch week, Swedish vecka, and Danish uge. This was probably derived from the base *wik- ‘bend, turn, change’ (source also of English weak), and it is thought that it may originally have denoted ‘time-change’, perhaps with specific reference to the change of phase of the moon.

week (n.)

Old English wucu, wice, etc., from Proto-Germanic *wikon (cognates: Old Norse vika, Old Frisian wike, Middle Dutch weke, Old High German wecha, German woche), probably originally with the sense of "a turning" or "succession" (compare Gothic wikon "in the course of," Old Norse vika "sea-mile," originally "change of oar," Old English wican "yield, give way"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (see vicarious). The vowel sound seems to have been uncertain in Old and Middle English and -e-, -i-, -o-, -u-, -y-, and various diphthongs are attested for it.

"Meaning primarily 'change, alteration,' the word may once have denoted some earlier time division, such as the 'change of moon, half month,' ... but there is no positive evidence of this" [Buck]. No evidence of a native Germanic week before contact with the Romans. The seven-day week is ancient, probably originating from the 28-day lunar cycle, divisible into four periods of seven day, at the end of each of which the moon enters a new phase. Reinforced during the spread of Christianity by the ancient Jewish seven-day week.

As a Roman astrological convention it was borrowed by other European peoples; the Germanic tribes substituting their own deities for those of the Romans, without regard to planets. The Coligny calendar suggests a Celtic division of the month into halves; the regular Greek division of the month was into three decades; and the Romans also had a market week of nine days.

Greek planetary names [for the days of the week] ... are attested for the early centuries of our era, but their use was apparently restricted to certain circles; at any rate they never became popular. In Rome, on the other hand, the planetary names became the established popular terms, too strongly intrenched to be displaced by the eccl[esiastical] names, and spreading through most of western Europe. [Buck]

Phrase a week, as in eight days a week recorded by 1540s; see a- (1).

week 词组搭配

week 英文释义

1. any period of seven consecutive days;

"it rained for a week"

2. a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

3. hours or days of work in a calendar week;

"they worked a 40-hour week"

week 双语例句

1. We tend to meet up for lunch once a week.

我们往往每周共进一次午餐。

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2. Somalia, pop. 7.9 million, income per head about £1.60 a week.

索马里，人口790万，人均收入大约每周1.60英镑。

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3. He will be attending next week's American Grammy Awards in feverish anticipation.

他将带着紧张兴奋的期待出席下周的美国格莱美奖颁奖。

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4. The news programme goes out four times a week at peak time.

这档新闻节目每周在黄金时段播出4次。

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5. The volunteers kept a record of everything they ate for a week.

志愿者记录下他们一周所吃的所有食物。

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week 实用场景例句

last/this/next week

上 / 本 / 下星期

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It rained all week.

整个星期都在下雨。

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What day of the week is it?

今天星期几？

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He comes to see us once a week .

他每周来看望我们一次。

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a two-week vacation

两周假期

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The course lasts five weeks.

这门课程上五周。

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a week ago today (= seven days ago)

一周前的今天

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She'll be back in a week .

她一周后回来。

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They live in town during the week and go to the country for the weekend.

他们从星期一到星期五住在城里，周末到乡下去。

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(British English)I never have the time to go out in the week .

我从星期一到星期五从来没有时间外出参加社交活动。

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a 35-hour week

35小时的工作周

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The firm is introducing a shorter working week .

这家公司要采用较短的周工作时间。

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I'll see you Thursday week.

我们下星期四见。

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Week after week the drought continued.

干旱持续了好多个星期。

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Week by week he grew a little stronger.

每过一星期他都更健壮一点儿。

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Every Sunday, week in, week out, she goes to her parents for lunch.

她每个星期天都毫无例外地到她父母那里吃午饭。

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It's my birthday a week on Tuesday.

一周后的星期二是我的生日。

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She started work a week yesterday.

她在一个星期前的昨天就开始工作了。

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I had a letter from my mother last week...

上周我收到了母亲的一封信。

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This has been on my mind all week...

我整个星期都在想这件事。

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Her mother stayed for another two weeks...

她母亲又呆了两个星期。

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Only 12 weeks ago he underwent major heart transplant surgery...

12个星期前他才刚刚接受了风险很高的心脏移植手术。

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It is not unusual for women to work a 40-hour week.

女性一周工作40小时并不少见。

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...workers on a three-day week.

一周只工作3天的工人

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...the hard work of looking after the children during the week...

除周末外每天都要照看孩子的辛苦

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They arrived at the weekend and gave three concerts in the week.

他们周末抵达，从周一到周五举办了3场音乐会。

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The deadline to publish the document is a week tomorrow...

一周后的明天是公布这份文件的最后期限。

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The 800 metre final is on Monday week.

800米决赛在下周一进行。

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'That's the time you weren't well, wasn't it?' — 'Yes, that's right, that was a week ago yesterday.'

“就是那个时候你不舒服，没错吧？”——“是的，没错，就是一周前的昨天。”

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...stars who appear on television week in week out.

接连好几个星期都在电视上露脸的明星。

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