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单词 anniversary
释义
anniversaryan‧ni‧ver‧sa‧ry /ˌænəˈvɜːsəri $ -ɜːr-/ ●●○ noun (plural anniversaries) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINanniversary
Origin:
1200-1300 Medieval Latin anniversarium, from Latin anniversarius ‘returning each year’, from annus (ANNUAL1) + vertere ‘to turn’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • our twentieth wedding anniversary
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • First, can I say congratulations on reaching your tenth anniversary.
  • For today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive.
  • Last Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the 29-year-old's death.
  • Others even offer to send e-mail reminders of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.
  • The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious, never reflected on.
  • The single event which marked the dividing line was the company's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in April 1979.
  • Today to mark that anniversary a veteran peace campaigner cut through the base fence.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Jack and Kim celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary in January.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· He is planning a very special 40th birthday celebration.· It was the college’s 150th anniversary celebration last night.
· They celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary in May.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary.· Success is also particularly appropriate this year, as the band is celebrating its golden anniversary.
· There's a two-hour Twilight Zone special to celebrate its silver anniversary.· Gabbiano Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers or fruit.· Ateneo Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples staying 5 nights or more receive dinner on arrival and a complimentary gondola ride.
NOUN
· They now hope to combine their anniversary celebrations either with the steam weekends starting in May or the Railway Carnival.· Chapman had died of cancer on Wednesday on the eve of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the first Monty Python show.· The single event which marked the dividing line was the company's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in April 1979.· The charity says scrapping the event is a big blow to its fiftieth anniversary celebrations.· It's part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of one of the country's leading music promoters.· In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women.
· When we were having an anniversary party at home, flowers and a very kind note arrived from her.
· The couple plan to celebrate the victory and their seventh wedding anniversary by taking their children to Disneyworld in Florida.· At the moment, I do quite a few barn dances, mainly for wedding anniversaries.· What would the photos of my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary have revealed?· No concessions are made to their infant's chicken pox or wedding anniversaries.· Back home it was 6.30 am and ironically the morning of his wedding anniversary.· The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.· Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary.· Finally the couple may be celebrating a birthday, a wedding anniversary or some other red-letter day.
· It was a great pity that the team was not allowed to perform at other displays during the anniversary year.· And in Oxfam's fiftieth anniversary year, designers are definitely thinking pink.· The anniversary year and the MacRobert also provided a showcase for the riches of the University Art Collection.
VERB
· This year Colnaghi's also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the opening of its New York city gallery.· This month, the museum celebrates its first anniversary.· His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding.· Success is also particularly appropriate this year, as the band is celebrating its golden anniversary.· He leaves a wife, Kerry, with whom he would have celebrated his second wedding anniversary this month.· Bernard also celebrated an anniversary Mass in his home church of St Bede's.
· Each commemorated a painful anniversary on the same day last week.· And to commemorate their anniversary, the charity has opened a new office in Glasgow.· The idea of making a special flower picture to commemorate a particular wedding anniversary works very well.
· There are no events planned for this weekend to mark the anniversary of his birth.· How would the association mark the anniversary of the Great October Revolution?· Today to mark that anniversary a veteran peace campaigner cut through the base fence.· In the meantime we can mark the anniversary of Zeta.
· Gabbiano Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers or fruit.
· Something the wife of a golf pro would wear to a barbecue celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary.
a date on which something special or important happened in a previous year:  Jack and Kim celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary in January.anniversary of A huge parade was held on the anniversary of the 1959 revolution.
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