august

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au·gust /ɔːˈɡʌst $ ɒː-/ adjectiveadj

ADMIREimpressive and respected 威严的，尊严的，庄严的

an august institution

庄严的机构

Examples from the Corpus

august• It has been prepared by that august body, the Industrial Society and indicates that many secretaries feel trapped in their jobs.• He admired the columned buildings, august even in the rain.• As the idea of Zeus became loftier, two august forms sat beside him in Olympus.• Perhaps Private Eye does not penetrate such an august reading room.

Related topics: Chronology

Au·gust /ˈɔːɡəst $ ˈɒː-/ S2 W2 noun [countableC, uncountableU] (written abbreviation Aug.)

TMCthe eighth month of the year, between July and September 八月

next/last August

I was there last August.

去年8月我在那里。

in August

My birthday’s in August.

我的生日在8月份。

on August 6th

The new store opened on August 6th.

新商店是8月6日开业的。

on 6th August British EnglishBrE

He arrived at Berwick on 6th August 1823.

1823年8月6日他来到伯威克。

August 6 American EnglishAmE

We’ll expect you to call August 6.

我们8月6日等你打电话来。

Examples from the Corpus

August• The last to die was David Mason, who was sent to the gas chamber in August 1993.• As Margaret Regan reported in August, the number of students at the new campus was 44 on opening day.• The bomb blasts in Moscow last August remain unsolved.• Trouble for the Hoovers started on a hot, late August Sunday in 1953.• On the sixth day, the first of August, I was frightened.• On August 27 she walked into a restaurant outside Cadiz, where Noye was dining.

August 6• Canonized 1234; died, August 6; feast day, August 8.• The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8: 15 in the morning of August 6, 1945.• She arrived at the train station, with trunk, on August 6.

Origin august

(1600-1700) Latin augustus

August

(1000-1100) Latin Augustus, from Augustus Caesar (63BC - AD14), Roman emperor

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