vacation

英[veɪˈkeɪʃn , vəˈkeɪʃn]美[veɪˈkeɪʃn , vəˈkeɪʃn]

n.假期，休假，休庭期；

v.度假；

复数：vacations;

例句

A good vacation uplifted him.愉快的假期使他振作起来。

Did you enjoy yourself during the winter vacation?你寒假过得愉快吗?

The Smiths dropped in on some old friends on their vacation trip to New York.史密斯一家去纽约度假时顺道拜访了一些老朋友。

When I came back from my long vacation, I found my garden overgrown.当度完长假归来时, 我发现我的花园里杂草丛生。

After weeks of work, our plan for a vacation trip crystallised.经过几周的工作, 我们的度假计划终于成型了。

He is quite run down and needs a vacation.他的身体太虚弱, 需要休假。

Soon school will end and the vacation will be at hand.学期快结束了, 假期即将到来。

We've made a tentative plan for the vacation but haven't really decided yet.我们拟定了一个度假计划, 但是没有真正定下来。

The children wait impatiently for the vacation.孩子们焦急地等待着假期的来临。

Many teachers and students resort to Beidaihe beach in the summer vacation.很多教师和学生在暑假中去北戴河海滨。

英语六级真题

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

Full-time employees who do have paid vacation days only use half of them on average.

8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

That’s what hard-working men and women say to justify their lavish vacations, big stereo systems or regular restaurant meals.

I now put 20 dollars a week into my vacation fund and another 20 into retirement savings, she says, Those mean more to me than lunch.

the summer vacation contributes to student growth

I can't decide what to do for my summer vacation.

What does the woman suggest the man do for his vacation

Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, using electricity someone else is distributing to my house.

Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions.

For this reason, community interventions and government job programs that offer summer and vacation work are not only economically beneficial but also help to stimulate the adolescent's sense of worth.

More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

（大学或美国大中小学的）假期

A vacation is a period of the year when universities and colleges, and in the United States also schools, are officially closed.

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N-COUNT

假日;休假

A vacation is a period of time during which you relax and enjoy yourself away from home.

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N-UNCOUNT

休息日;假期

If you have a particular number of days' or weeks' vacation, you do not have to go to work for that number of days or weeks.

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VERB

（离家在某地）度假

If you are vacationing in a place away from home, you are on vacation there.

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英汉词典释义

n.

假期

（法庭的）休庭期

英英词典释义

Noun

1. leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;

2. the act of making something legally void

Verb

1. spend or take a vacation

行业词典

法律： 法院休庭期；