| 词汇 | leap-year |
| 释义 | leap year noun[ C ] uk /ˈliːp ˌjɪər/ us /ˈliːp ˌjɪr/ a year that happens every four years and has an extra day on 29 February 闰年 Years & yearly academic year ad Anno Domini annual annually bissextile calendar year CE centenary church year Gregorian calendar interannual Julian calendar liturgical year millennial year end year's end year-around year-round yearly So he said that every four years there must be one more day, to make a leap year of 366 days. leap year | American Dictionaryleap year noun[ C ] us/ˈlip ˌyɪər/ a year, happening once every four years, that has 366 days and has February 29th as the extra day Examples of leap yearleap year Consequently, year 1900 is not a leapyear but year 2000 is. Of course, in a leapyear there will be two pay days in the week which will be repeated 53 times in the year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Every year contains one day more than 52 weeks and a leapyear contains two days more than 52 weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is made rather more confusing by leapyear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a leapyear there are 366 days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In addition, 1956 was a leapyear and the extra day would account for 3½ million gallons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will we have to wait until the next leapyear? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a leapyear, we have 52 weeks and two days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, they included a leapyear, and they were just as long, and no shorter, than any other six-year period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Someone forgot that a certain year was a leapyear and the whole of the calculations were completely wrong. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is therefore no power to increase a pension in leapyear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe he will find that the century is never a leapyear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that it was a leapyear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be slightly more in a leapyear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They can be worked seven days a week, 365 days a year, or 366 in a leapyear, without any rest or holiday or respite of any kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of leap year 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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