| 词组 | day |
| 释义 | day A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods in a week. The attack occurred six days ago. Can you go any day of the week? What about Monday? You also use day to refer to the time when it is light and when people are awake and doing things. When day has this meaning, you can use it either as a count noun or an uncount noun. The days were dry and the nights were cold. ...a typical working day. They had waited three days and three nights for this opportunity. The festivities would go on all day. They hunt by day. ◊ 'today' You refer to the actual day when you are speaking or writing as today. I hope you're feeling better today. I want to get to New York today. Today is also used to refer to the present period in history. Today we are threatened on all sides by financial and political crises. ◊ 'the other day' You use the other day to indicate that something happened fairly recently. I saw Davis the other day. The other day, one of them asked me to tell him the main differences between reporting the America of today and the America of thirty years ago. ◊ referring to a particular day If you want to refer to a particular day when an event happened or will happen, you usually use a prepositional phrase beginning with on. We didn't catch any fish on the first day. On May Day we sat as honoured foreign guests in T'ien-an Men Square. On the day after the race try to jog. If you have already been talking about events that happened during a particular day, you can say that something else happened that day. Geoff had appeared for lunch that day at Eden Gardens. Then I took a bath, my second that day. Later that day Mason was taken by police car from Barlinnie back to the High Court. You can also say that something had happened the day before or the previous day. The day before Kate had worn scarlet shorts for tennis. My belongings had been taken from me the previous day. You can also say that something happened the next day or the following day. The next day the revolution broke out. We were due to meet Hamish the following day. When you have been talking about a particular day in the future, you can say that something will happen the following day or the day after. Scotland's selectors will meet tomorrow evening and their team will be named the following day. I could come the day after. ◊ 'every day' If something happens regularly on each day, you say that it happens every day. Every day I see Mr Davis. Every day my newspaper tells me how dead our present religion is. ◊ WARNING Do not confuse every day with the adjective everyday. For an explanation of the differences, see entry at ↑ ◊ 'these days' You use these days when you are talking about things that are happening now, in contrast to things that happened in the past. If you need medical help abroad these days, it can run into a small fortune. Bob was drunk, as usual these days. Nowadays is used in a similar way. Kids nowadays are lazy. Why don't we ever see Jim nowadays? ◊ 'in those days' You say in those days when you are describing a situation in the past which no longer exists. Ice-cream in those days in Poland was considered to be a dangerous food. You yourself taught in the school in those days. ◊ 'one day' You use one day to say that something will happen at some indefinite time in the future. Maybe he'll be Prime Minister one day. Don't cry, Julie, I'll come back one day, I promise. In stories, one day is used when a writer has just described a situation and is mentioning the first of a series of events. One day a man called Cayley came in to pay his electricity bill. ◊ other uses There are several ways in which day or days can be used to refer to a particular period in history. In Shakespeare's day, women's parts were played by male actors. She wrote in the early days of the republic. In these days of vaccination measles and mumps are not so common as they used to be in my young days. This is the main problem of the present day. Note that when you use day or days like this in an adverbial, the preposition you use in the adverbial is always 'in'. |
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