Wednesday的意思|Wednesday的解释-里氏词典

Wednesday ['wenzdi]

n. 星期三

wednesday

[ noun ]
the fourth day of the week; the third working day
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Wednesday \Wednes"day\ (?; 48), n. [OE. wednesdai, wodnesdei,
AS. W[=o]dnes d[ae]g, i. e., Woden's day (a translation of L.
dies Mercurii); fr. W[=o]den the highest god of the Teutonic
peoples, but identified with the Roman god Mercury; akin to
OS. W[=o]dan, OHG. Wuotan, Icel. O[eth]inn, D. woensdag
Wednesday, Icel. [=o][eth]insdagr, Dan. & Sw. onsdag. See
{Day}, and cf. {Woden}, {Wood}, a.]
The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.

{Ash Wednesday}. See in the Vocabulary.

De Klerk said Wednesday's balloting ratified his reforms.
The leader of a one-man crusade to open a home for people with AIDS has left town, emotionally battered and financially strapped but insisting Wednesday that his was a successful fight to change attitudes.
Guenther Dahloff, an economic official of the West German Embassy, rose to say Mr. McPherson's concerns were just "a mirror image" of European concerns about U.S. trade policy, especially the huge new trade bill passed Wednesday.
Guerrillas armed with assault rifles killed a West German priest when he tried to rescue another missionary who was being attacked with a hatchet, a church spokesman said Wednesday.
The Democratic governor said he met privately Wednesday with Texas oilman Robert Mosbacher, a longtime Bush associate selected by the Republican president-elect to be commerce secretary in his administration.
Two other Americans arrived from Iraq on Wednesday.
The National Party, despite gains made by white leftist and rightist forces, expects to retain power in Wednesday's parliamentary voting, but it probably will suffer its biggest losses since coming to power 41 years ago.
Government party chairman Park Tae-jun told a news conference today that the issue of adopting a parliamentary system would be discussed by a 15-member working committee to be formed Wednesday.
The Nikkei Stock Average closed at 27,767.58 points, down 52.40 points, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
The fighting began at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday and died down after midnight.
A French humanitarian group said Wednesday it was withdrawing part of its claim about the use of toxic gas during street protests in Soviet Georgia last month in which 19 people were killed.
Gayle Turenne, 31, was charged Wednesday in a warrant with one count of possession of cocaine, said Lt.
He passed through Mexico crossing the Rio Grande on Sunday and arrived in Miami by bus Wednesday. "So I came here.
The quake, registering 2.5 on the Richter scale of ground motion, hit the area around the Western Deep Levels East mine late Wednesday, the Anglo American Corp. said.
Gov. Bob Martinez on Wednesday extended his call for a special session of the Florida Legislature Oct. 10 on abortion to include revision of child protection laws.
On Wednesday, however, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury convicted record store owner Charles Freeman of obscenity for selling a sexually explicit record by the rap group 2 Live Crew.
The emergence of a new fault-line in Anglo-German relations on Wednesday night pushed the pound down to DM2.4770 in Asian trading, with the currency bottoming out at DM2.4680 in Europe yesterday.
Talks with Michigan Bell resumed Tuesday, and continued early Wednesday, said spokesmen for the utility and the union.
Twelve firefighters remained hospitalized Wednesday.
At least 59 militant unions in Seoul decided on Wednesday to call a joint strike Friday in protest of the crackdown on labor. Union leaders said they would seek an alliance with students.
The younger Savage, who now works as an affirmative action officer for the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District, was not in his office Wednesday and could not be reached for comment.
But such hopes seemed to get no support from comments Wednesday morning by Alan Greenspan, the Fed's chairman, before a congressional committee.
It went down Wednesday at Lake Managua, about six miles east of Managua.
Another government report Wednesday showed that new homes sales climbed 5.5 percent in June, the third monthly increase.
The Senate tried to save the part of the plan that extended Medicare to cover long hospital stays, but the House insisted on total repeal and, in the legislative equivalent of an across-the-Capitol arm wrestle, the House won early Wednesday.
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.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl favors the two German parliaments making formal statements that recognize Poland's western border, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Dr. Charles Anthony Hufnagel, a cardiac surgeon who pioneered the artificial heart valve, died on Wednesday at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, who met Gorbachev on Wednesday, said later he thought Aziz may pass a message to Gorbachev to relay to Bush at the summit.
That was down from 8.54% late Wednesday.

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