week的意思|week的解释-里氏词典

week [wi:k]

n. 星期, 周

week

[ noun ]

any period of seven consecutive days

<noun.time>

it rained for a week

hours or days of work in a calendar week

<noun.time>

they worked a 40-hour week

a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday

<noun.time>

Week \Week\, n. [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu,
wucu; akin to OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG.
wohha, wehha, Icel. vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik?,
probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin
to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E.
weak. Cf. {Weak}.]
A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one
Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

I fast twice in the week. --Luke xviii.
12.

Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar
of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till
after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed
from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries.
--Encyc. Brit.

{Feast of Weeks}. See {Pentecost}, 1.

{Prophetic week}, a week of years, or seven years. --Dan. ix.
24.

{Week day}. See under {Day}.

Authorities last week issued a vacate order for a club in Manhattan and closed another in the Bronx.
The entree, like the politicking and gossiping, varies each week.
Barco said he will present the proposed treaty to the lawmakers next week.
The Blue Arrow affair "undoubtedly has cast a shadow" over County NatWest, said Lord Alexander, who appeared frazzled after a week of crisis.
Volume was light in contrast to the previous week's activity in which about 1 billion shares traded hands in the busiest week in more than a year.
Volume was light in contrast to the previous week's activity in which about 1 billion shares traded hands in the busiest week in more than a year.
Although the truce effectively collapsed one week later, with both sides swapping accusations of military attacks, government and rebel representatives continued to hold sporadic peace talks in Zaire until last week.
Although the truce effectively collapsed one week later, with both sides swapping accusations of military attacks, government and rebel representatives continued to hold sporadic peace talks in Zaire until last week.
When interviewed last week, he had just heard bad news from CBS officialdom.
Johnson split with Taylor months ago, and his fighters last week advanced to within a mile of the presidential mansion.
Stuart B. Rekant, an MCEG executive vice president who masterminded the program, said early last week that the delayed delivery of MCEG movies has created "timing gaps" in payments by overseas distributors.
Inland Revenue officials are travelling to Washington this week for talks with the US Treasury.
It has been a good week for North American executives who supposedly lost out in the John Akers/Lou Gerstner succession at IBM.
The Hunt campaign sent a new series of ads to TV stations late last week.
'My friend was butchered last week,' said a 65-year-old Croat peasant woman.
The stock, which proved immune to sharp declines in the market last week, fell 3 7/8 yesterday, to 36 5/8, even though the company reported higher earnings.
Earlier last week, it was announced that Kuwait and Iran were restoring full diplomatic relations.
Last week, the total fell by 21.
The midseason replacement series reached No. 1 in the A.C. Nielsen ratings for the second week of March, and a one-hour rerun special knocked venerable "60 Minutes" out of the Top 10 slot.
She writes at least three columns and features for the Plain Dealer's Friday tabloid and another two to three reviews for the rest of the week.
Earlier last week, French Foreign Trade Minister Michel Noir said that the lower dollar was a "catastrophe" for Airbus Industrie and will force the consortium to sell its wide-bodied jets at a loss.
The shipbuilding giant's union members walked out this week to protest the government's arrest of several union leaders.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the pair was arrested earlier in the week after arriving at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport on flights from London.
Communist officials under pressure to resolve the country's rising economic and political turmoil said Wednesday that a party conference will grapple next week with changes in national leadership.
Steven Axelrod, another New York literary agent, is meeting next week with an investment newsletter writer who has proposed a guide to investing in the stock market.
But Concorde still attracts its regular fliers, of whom some travel every week, and those individuals who are willing to pay the supersonic premium to arrive fresh. In addition, Concorde continues to attract a busy charter business.
Insurgents overran seven Afghan army posts in Logar province in the first week of April and, on Monday, a 450-unit Soviet convoy including more than 100 armored vehicles headed south toward the province from Kabul, the diplomats reported.
The Club of Rome, best known for its first report warning of the dangers unlimited growth pose to the planet, is bringing together thinkers and world leaders this week to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Last week, when some arbitragers sensed trouble ahead and began unloading, Kellner DiLeo continued to buy some stocks and only began selling on Friday.
Even if the application for observer status is approved this week, the Soviet Union would not be privy to the so-called Uruguay Round of talks, intended to draw up comprehensive new agreements to liberalize trade in areas such as agriculture and textiles.

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