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decade

/dek-eyd; British also duh-keyd/US // ˈdɛk eɪd; British also dəˈkeɪd //UK // (ˈdɛkeɪd, dɪˈkeɪd) //

十年,十年来,十年后

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
    • : a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero: the decade of the 1980s.
    • : a group, set, or series of ten.

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Examples

  • Within a decade or so, business schools had begun to teach that the purpose of business is to maximize “shareholder value,” a mantra that eventually rang out from practically every company boardroom.

  • IBM is feeling confident enough in its abilities that it is unveiling its full quantum hardware roadmap for the decade ahead.

  • Indeed, with electric vehicles cutting into oil demand by the end of the decade, it may never fully recover.

  • After literal decades of looking up at Brady and the Patriots, their fellow AFC East teams can sense that a new era may be at hand.

  • The more we looked over the past couple of decades, the more prevalent fresh produce is as a source of foodborne illness.

  • Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.

  • Who are some younger popular historians that you think will be a lot better known a decade from now?

  • Who knew that “we shall overcome” meant “we, the few, shall book covers every decade or so, maybe, sometimes, if we are in style.”

  • And black fury toward cops today is fueled by historic economic disparities and by the economic disaster of the past decade plus.

  • Beyoncé has, for close to a decade now, been a deity in entertainment: untouchable, successful, divine.

  • During the past decade, the population of three cities has been materially increased through annexation.

  • Approximately 216,900 persons became residents of Virginia during this decade.

  • We do not know when Chrétien wrote the Erec, but it was almost certainly some time in the decade 1150-60.

  • The advancing sand gradually crept into the hamlet, and in the course of a decade dispossessed the people by burying their houses.

  • He lived indeed through its first decade, but his active life was over before it began.