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 anniversary [æni'vә:sәri]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 周年纪念

  1. He gave me a necklace as an anniversary gift.
    他给我一条项链作为周年纪念礼物。
  2. How did you celebrate your wedding anniversary?
    你是怎样庆祝结婚周年纪念日的?
  3. She reproached her husband for having forgotten their wedding anniversary.
    她责怪丈夫忘了他们的结婚周年纪念日。


anniversary
[ noun ]
the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
<noun.time>


Anniversary \An`ni*ver"sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Anniversaries}. [Cf. F.
anniversaire.]
1. The annual return of the day on which any notable event
took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

2. (R. C. Ch.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the
soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some
sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the
consecration of a pope.

3. The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.
--Dryden.


Anniversary \An`ni*ver"sa*ry\, a. [L. anniversarius; annus year
+ vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. anniversaire.]
Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly;
as, an anniversary feast.

{Anniversary day} (R. C. Ch.). See {Anniversary}, n., 2.

{Anniversary week}, that week in the year in which the annual
meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in
Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

  1. Nasdaq says it didn't do much partying for its 20th anniversary last year, aside from a press release or two.
  2. The speech, delivered three days before the 19th anniversary of the coup that brought him to power, was addressed to a convention of revolutionary committee members.
  3. 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.
  4. "Something is obviously wrong and has been obviously wrong for the last four years," Rep. Robin Tallon, D-S.C., said at a news conference following ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery marking the crash anniversary.
  5. Bells tolled and mournful chants filled the streets today as Armenia marked the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that killed at least 25,000 people.
  6. Three Sinhalese extremists and a soldier were killed and militants torched buses on the first anniversary of an accord aimed at ending Tamil separatist violence, police said today.
  7. I want it back.' I suppose some Moslems, reading those words uttered by Mr Salman Rushdie, the novelist, last week in his speech on the third anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa condemning him to death, will have felt a grim satisfaction.
  8. We don't even have enough housing for our young people." On Oct. 3, the first anniversary of reunification, three local youths threw a Molotov cocktail through a ground-floor window of the Huenxe asylum home.
  9. The demonstrations have been held to mark the second anniversary of the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli ocupation of the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza Strip.
  10. So the prospect of a SFr194m (Pounds 88m) lakeside complex, to be opened in time for the festival's 60th anniversary in 1998, is doubly welcome.
  11. The ISU ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of his capture was delayed from Friday to Monday to wait for students to return to the central Iowa campus from spring break.
  12. The decision to disband the militia came just three days before the 33rd anniversary of the 1956 revolt, which was crushed by Soviet tanks.
  13. Bush's one-day visit to Prague on Saturday, the first by a U.S. president, coincides with the first anniversary of Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution."
  14. "There must be an end to the tragic cycle of violence, a task that demands great courage and resolve from all South African leaders, black and white," he said in a speech to the 20th anniversary dinner of the Joint Center for Political Studies.
  15. He had a Polish captain's uniform made to mark the anniversary of Poland's entry into the Second World War, even though he was not entitled to wear it.
  16. A group opposed to nuclear testing demonstrated Saturday to mark the anniversary of the first nuclear test here in 1951 and 38 protesters were arrested for trespassing, officials said.
  17. The summit census nearly doubles what was the record 38 world leaders who met at the United Nations on its 40th anniversary in 1985.
  18. In Havana, President Fidel Castro pledged "socialism or death" in a televised speech marking the 30th anniversary of his communist revolution.
  19. Vessels large and small, many of them the same ones that rescued hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from the Nazi onslaught, made their way across the English Channel to mark the 50th anniversary of the evacuation.
  20. President Reagan and other U.S. officials marked the ninth anniversary of Soviet intervention in Afghanistan stressing that they expect Moscow to honor its commitment to complete military withdrawal by Feb. 15.
  21. The striking changes were presaged at the 1988 celebration of Christianity's thousandth anniversary in Russia.
  22. Dating back to 1492 and the place where Columbus' remains are said to be buried, Santo Domingo is hoping to attract thousands of tourists for the 500th anniversary.
  23. They were singing with Bruce Springsteen during an eight-hour rock concert Friday night celebrating the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
  24. The convention, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Ada-based company, comes about a month after Amway teamed up with corporate raider Irwin Jacobs to buy a 10.3 percent stake in Avon.
  25. Christofferson, then a town councilman, recalled that nobody had thought about celebrating the centennial before a local forest service official noted the 100th anniversary was fast approaching.
  26. The front, whose 12 underground organizations include the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army, made the proposal in a statement delivered to news organizations on its 16th anniversary.
  27. Yet on this anniversary, what do we hear in America but new talk of a yellow peril?
  28. Last year on the anniversary, riot police using water cannons and tear gas dispersed a crowd of about 5,000 demanding more freedom at home.
  29. They want to be there too." Wednesday is the 20th anniversary of the massacre of civilians by U.S. troops at the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
  30. We have to use their 500th anniversary to re-evaluate our history.' Others present disagreed, claiming Mexico has a perfectly strong sense of national identity.
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