| 单词 | date |
| 例句 | date noun 1.•the only date he has to remember:day, day of the month, occasion, time | year | anniversary. 2.•a later date is suggested for this artifact:age, time, period, era, epoch, century, decade, year. 3.•a lunch date:appointment, meeting, engagement, rendezvous, assignation | commitment. 4.informal •he's my date for tonight:partner, escort, girlfriend, boyfriend, steady.▶verb 1.•the sculpture can be dated accurately:assign a date to, ascertain the date of, put a date on. 2.•the building dates from the sixteenth century:was made in, was built in, originates in, comes from, belongs to, goes back to. 3.•the best films don't date:become old-fashioned, become outmoded, become dated, show its age. 4.informal •he's dating Jill:go out with, take out, go around with, be involved with, see, go steady with | dated woo, court. PHRASES to date •this is all the information we have to date:so far, thus far, yet, as yet, up to now, till now, until now, up to the present (time), hitherto. WORD LINKS relating to datesWord Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.WORD NOTE prochronism It is a good thing to know the correct word for your mistakes. Dating an event earlier than it actually happened is a common enough boo-boo made by academics, families, governments, dictators—and it is not always quite accidental. A little prochronism goes a long way: to obscure a vital truth, give historical credence to a specious theory, disable the possibilities for change, rewrite an awkward past…. With frequent usage and a little tweak of emphasis, it might even be adaptable as a name for a kind of condition for which the sufferer might create a support group. So a husband might say to his wife: “It's not that I forgot our anniversary because I don't care, it's just my prochronism….”. — ZSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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