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lustrum

/luhs-truhm/US // ˈlʌs trəm //UK // (ˈlʌstrəm) //

色欲,色泽,色泽度,色欲之光

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lus·trums, lus·tra [luhs-truh]. /ˈlʌs trə/.

    • : a period of five years.
    • : Roman History. a lustration or ceremonial purification of the people, performed every five years, after the taking of the census.

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Examples

  • One of the British novels with the highest sales hopes before Christmas is Lustrum by Robert Harris.

  • This review was called the closing of the lustrum, because it was accompanied with sacrifices and purifications named lustrations.

  • The term lustrum was applied to the interval of five years between two censuses.

  • Then I sicken at the idea of having Strauss in my head and on my hands for a lustrum, instead of saying good-bye to him in a year.

  • A meditative man in his sixth lustrum can be very happy with pruning-hook and shears among his young trees.

  • Why, you will have a million, not in a decade, but in a lustrum.