month: [OE] In ancient times the passing of time was recorded by noting the revolutions of the moon. Consequently prehistoric Indo-European had a single word, *mēnes-, which denoted both ‘moon’ and ‘month’. The Romance languages retain it only for ‘month’: Latin mēnsis (source of English menstrual) has given French mois, Italian mese, and Spanish mes. The Germanic languages, however, have kept both, distinguishing them by different forms. In the case of ‘month’, the Germanic word was *m?nōth, which has differentiated into German monat, Dutch maand, Swedish m?nad, Danish maaned, and English month. => menstrual, moon
month (n.)
Old English monae, from Proto-Germanic *menoth- (cognates: Old Saxon manoth, Old Frisian monath, Middle Dutch manet, Dutch maand, Old High German manod, German Monat, Old Norse manaer, Gothic menots "month"), related to *menon- "moon" (see moon (n.); the month was calculated from lunar phases). Its cognates mean only "month" in the Romance languages, but in Germanic generally continue to do double duty. Phrase a month of Sundays "a very long time" is from 1832 (roughly 7 and a half months, but never used literally).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. One month before the deadline we see the hollowness of these promises.
離最后期限只有一個(gè)月時(shí)，我們認(rèn)識(shí)到了這些許諾都是空頭支票。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The three parties will meet next month to work out remaining differences.
三方將在下個(gè)月會(huì)面，以解決余下的分歧。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. He won last month's presidential election by a landslide.
他以壓倒性多數(shù)贏(yíng)得上月的總統(tǒng)選舉。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
4. The first snow came a month earlier than usual.
第一場(chǎng)雪比往年提早了一個(gè)月。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
5. Ballpark estimates indicate a price tag of $90 million a month.