| 词汇 | first-quarter |
| 释义 | first quarter noun[ C ] uk /ˌfɜːst ˈkwɔː.tər/ us /ˌfɝːst ˈkwɔːr.t̬ɚ/ a half moon上弦月 Astronomy albedo Andromeda Aquarius Aries asteroid galaxy Gemini geostationary geosynchronous gibbous observatory orbit orbital Orion penumbra substellar sunspot supergiant supermassive supermoon On putting my head out through the hole I was distressed to see the brilliant light of the crescent moon then entering in its first quarter. first quarter | American Dictionaryfirst quarter noun[ C ] us/ˈfɜrst ˈkwɔr·tər/ a half moon first quarter | Business Englishfirst quarter noun[ C,usually singular ] ukus ACCOUNTING, FINANCE (abbreviationQ1); (US alsofiscal first quarter) the first three months in a company's financial year: The company reported an excellent first quarter 2011. Directors are scheduled to meet brokers today to discuss the firm's first-quarter performance. the three months from January 1 to March 31: The number of cars registered rose by 15% in the first quarter of this year. Examples of first quarterfirst quarter The town flourished in the second half of the eighth and the firstquarter of the 9th century. The addition of illustrations was associated with the general artistic upgrading of songs in the firstquarter of the century. This situation improved in the firstquarter of 1950. In the firstquarter of 1998, 15 (1 paucibacillary and 14 multibacillary) residents of the district were receiving treatment for leprosy. Intervention patients reported higher depression scores than usual care patients in the firstquarter and lower scores in the final two quarters. Starting from the firstquarter of 1966, real fixed investment fell until the second quarter of 1967. The sample starts in the firstquarter of 1993 and ends in the third quarter of 2003, yielding a total of 43 quarters. Despite these procedures, by the end of firstquarter, classrooms within schools differed markedly in levels of aggressive behavior. Officially, the recession ended in the firstquarter of 1991, and the low-growth phase in the firstquarter of 1992. It - - - seems that he was born in the firstquarter of the tenth century6 and that he died towards the end of it. This proportion went down to only a third in the firstquarter of 1942. The economy entered a low-growth phase in the firstquarter of 1969, which turned into a recession in the fourth quarter of that year. These results suggest that interest rate changes are not predictable beyond the firstquarter. There was a further improvement in the firstquarter of the year 2000. The irony is that before structural reform made its basic breakthrough, the economy had come back by the firstquarter of 2004. See all examples of first quarter These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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