make a date• So if you have yet to try one of these fabled creations, do yourself a favor and make a date.• I make a date with my friend Patrick, a laborhistorian.• McCready made a date for the Montcalm Hotel at one o'clock.• But remember, the goal of making a date is to spend time together, not necessarily to spend money together.• I was dancing with her and we made a date for the following day outside the Plazacinema at six o'clock.• We made a date to meet at a New York hotel anyway.• If you make dates with patients, you have to expect everyone to know.• You made a date with her for half seven the following evening and she was thrilled.
4relationship 关系 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]American EnglishAmERELATIONSHIP to have a romantic relationship with someone (与…)谈恋爱SYN go out with
Is he still dating Sarah?
他还在和萨拉谈恋爱吗?
Are Chris and Liz dating?
克里斯在和利兹谈恋爱吗?
5show SB’s age 显出某人的年龄 [transitiveT]OLD/NOT NEW if something that you say, do, or wear dates you, it shows that you are fairly old 显出〔某人〕老了
Yes, I remember the Moon landings – that dates me, doesn’t it?
是的,我记得登月事件——这说明我老了,是不是?
6date from something (also date back to something)phrasal verbphr vPASTto have existed since a particular time in the past 自…存在至今,追溯到…年代
The church dates from the 13th century.
这座教堂建于13世纪。
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date from • The Custom House is a neo-classical building of three storeysdating from 1843.• Gernsheim reproduces a noteworthyexampledating from 1873.• The extreme left doors date from 1948, the work of Arrigo Menerbi, showing the tribulations of early Christians.• It was built in the fifteenth century and the paintingsdate fromc. 1520; it is a very fine example indeed.• These masterlycantatasdate from different periods in Bach's life.• The belltowerdates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesquestyle that still exists.• This is an early church, dating from the ninth-century, which was rebuilt under the direction of San Carlo Borromeo.• Several of his finest works date from these years.
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date• The correspondinglanguage of the guarantee and debenturedated 6 June 1985 is somewhat different.• How long have Paul and Sue been dating?• What is a man his age doing dating a 17-year-old?• Certainstyles of music will never date, and will always be popular.• His furnituredesigns have hardly dated at all.• In this way, the fellingdate for that piece of timber can usually be dated to within a year.• This free-scrolling handle, dating from about 1740, was known as a flyingscroll handle.• She was in violation of some deal they had which dated from the moment they agreed to combinehouseholds.• His first publicationsdate from work carried out there.• The internalmemo, datedNovember 13, was from Watkins.• The Los Angeles Times is not responsible for changes in prices, dates or itineraries.• I thought we were just friends, but when I started dating other men, he suddenly got really jealous.• Oh, I forgot to date the check.• Scientists have not yet dated the humanremains found at these megalithic sites.• The trouble with high fashion clothes is that they date very quickly.
From Longman Business Dictionary
datedate1 /deɪt/written abbreviation d noun [countableC]
1the words you use to talk about a particular day, month, and year