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单词 decade
释义
decade
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdek.eɪd//dekˈeɪd/us
/ˈdek.eɪd//dekˈeɪd/
B2
aperiodof tenyears,especiallyaperiodsuch as 2010 to 2019
十年；年代
Examples
  • Airtraffichasincreased30% in the last decade.
  • Theypredictthat alargeearthquakewillstriketheeastcoastbefore the end of the decade.
  • Environmentalawarenesshasincreaseddramaticallyover the past decade.
  • Heractingcareerspannedalmostsix decades.
  • Indiaattainedindependencein 1947, after decades ofstruggle.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Decades, centuries & the millennium
  • century
  • eighties
  • fifties
  • fin-de-siècle
  • forties
  • mid-century
  • millennial
  • millennium
  • nineties
  • noughties
  • seventies
  • sixties
  • teens
  • the
  • thirties
  • twenties
(Definition ofdecadefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Over the next decade, jet planes got bigger and faster.
  • The success of Strauss’s tires was made possible because of all the improvements to rubber tires that had been made during the previous decade.
  • In the earlier years of the fourth decade of the century, however, a change came over a considerable section of the movement.
  • In this book he intends to hazard certain forecasts about the trend of events in the next decade or so.
  • The literature of the English language has not all been written in the present decade nor in the last century.
  • The next decade was largely one of the settlement of new territory, and by its close the pendulum seemed to have swung decidedly backward.
  • What the scientist had foretold, became evident to all eyes two decades later.

decade| American Dictionary

decade
noun[C]
us
/ˈdek·eɪd,deˈkeɪd/
aperiodof tenyears:
Theeconomyisgrowingatitsfastestratethis decade.
Decadesmeansalongtime:
They’reenjoyingnewpopularityafter decades ofneglect.
(Definition ofdecadefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdecade

decade
In each case, however, risk returned to baseline in little more than adecade.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Coding represents the predominant institutional form over the previous two decades.
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No further gains were achieved in the lastdecadeof the century, during which the third- and fourth-generation cultivars replaced the original introduced cultivars.
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The country has experienced considerable policy and political change over the past decades.
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Over the pastdecadeor so, there has been active development of alternative time-frequency representation schemes, independent of computer music research and largely theoretical.
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An array of agent-based models have been suggested over the past two decades.
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Just how much autonomy cells possess was a matter of serious debate in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century.
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Both teacher training and teaching have undergone fundamental changes in the past four decades.
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Whilst the events described in this book took place several decades ago, they remain uncannily contemporary.
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The recent theoretical literature attributes the increased education premium of the last decades to skill-biased technological progress.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There can indeed be little doubt that the lastdecadehas seen fierce theoretical competition between different perspectives.
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What role do you see for theoretical reflection in the archaeology of the coming decades?
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I imagine myself in the comingdecadecelebrating and supporting others' efforts to do such things.
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Structural reforms, however, take decades before their full effects are felt.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Our findings offer insights into whether and how the major structural changes during recent decades have affected older adults.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithdecade

decade

These are words often used in combination withdecade.

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coming decade
This volume will help many clinicians and researchers today, and should serve as a signpost for the advances to be made over thecomingdecade.
From theCambridge English Corpus
decade of experience
It is fair to say that this is a subject about which we have adecadeofexperience.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
decade of neglect
The truth is that we have had adecadeofneglectwhich has not been in the interests of creating a balanced and prosperous nation.
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