decade

['dekeid]

n.十年

例句与用法：

I believed that this struggle is going to go on and it might well be decided in the next decade.

我相信这一对抗还将会持续下去，并可能在下一个十年中得出结果。

Only very, very rarely does someone so far out of the political swim as Jerry Brown, who last held political office almost a decade ago, manage to win the presidential nomination of a major party.

像布朗这样远离政海——他最后一次从政几乎是十年以前的事——而能设法赢得主要政党提名竞选总统，实在是一件绝无仅有之事。

Several decades have elapsed since I graduated from the college.

我大学毕业已数十年了。

Prices have risen steadily during the past decade.

在过去十年里，物价一直在上涨。

详细释义：

n.

1. 十

2. 十年

the first decade of the 21st century

二十一世纪最初十年

3. (由一颗大珠十颗小珠构成的)念珠的一部分