anniversary

• n. 周年纪念日

词根ann, 年。词根verse,转。

anniversary

anniversary: [13] Like annual, anniversary is based ultimately on Latin annus ‘year’. The underlying idea it contains is of ‘yearly turning’ or ‘returning’; the Latin adjective anniversārius was based on annus and versus ‘turning’ (related to a wide range of English words, from verse and convert to vertebra and vertigo). This was used in phrases such as diēs anniversāria ‘day returning every year’, and eventually became a noun in its own right.
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anniversary (n.)

early 13c., originally especially of the day of a person's death, from Medieval Latin anniversarium, from Latin anniversarius (adj.) "returning annually," from annus (genitive anni) "year" (see annual (adj.)) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus). The adjective came to be used as a noun in Church Latin as anniversaria (dies) in reference to saints' days. An Old English word for "anniversary" (n.) was mynddæg, literally "mind-day."

1. Campaigners lit scores of bonfires in ceremonies to mark the anniversary.

参加运动的人们在各种仪式上点起一垛垛篝火以纪念周年庆典。

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2. The Vietnamese government has fixed on May 19th to celebrate his anniversary.

越南政府已经决定于5月19日庆祝他的诞辰。

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3. It was the fortieth anniversary of the death of the composer.

这是该作曲家逝世40周年纪念日。

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4. Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.

明年将是禁酒令废除60周年。

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5. The bank celebrates its hundredth anniversary in December.

这家银行将于12月庆祝其成立100周年。

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