| 单词 | lunar year |
| 例句 | Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Up to that time, Roman priests decided when extra days would be added to the lunar year. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z As a lunar year is approximately 11 days shorter than a solar year, a leap month is added at regular intervals to preserve the match with the cycle of the seasons. The Complex Challenge of Chinese Time 2012-09-04T15:07:03Z In the first two months of Iranian lunar year, which started in late March, the country earned only 37 percent of its projected revenues for the period, according to figures from Iran’s Supreme Audit Center. Putin’s Oil War With the West Comes at His Allies’ Expense 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Daffodils are one of the most auspicious flowers, because they bloom in the first month of the lunar year. Comic: Welcome Lunar New Year with these 9 plants 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Secretary for education Kevin Yeung said all kindergartens and schools would suspend face-to-face teaching until after the lunar year holiday, which ends on 15 February. Coronavirus live news: Thai PM urges people to 'just stay home'; Singapore will let police access contact-tracing data 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z The date of the mid-winter holiday would vary each year to coincide with the reappearance of Matariki, a star cluster associated with the start of the lunar year in Maori tradition. New Zealand government to honor Maori New Year if reelected 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Lunar New Year festivities were canceled across mainland China on Saturday and scaled back in the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, where residents also endured months of anti-government protests in the last lunar year. New virus mutes Lunar New Year mood in Asia 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The Spring Festival, signaling the dawn of a new lunar year — the Year of the Rat, according to the Chinese zodiac — is the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar. China virus: Expert says it can be spread by human-to-human contact, sparking concerns about themassive holiday travel underway 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Observance of Ramadan, based on the Islamic lunar year, starts in early May this year. Seattle school district apologizes for letter asking Muslim families to reconsider students fasting during testing season 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The museum organized the openings to coincide with the annual Lantern Festival, marking the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year. The Forbidden City Offers a Rare Nighttime Glimpse of China’s Imperial Past 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Asia welcomes the new lunar year with visits to temples, family banquets and the world’s biggest travel spree. 10 Things to Know for Today 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “The Year of the Pig looks like it will be an especially nasty, brutish year,” he said, referring to the upcoming lunar year. Chinese leaders urge ‘spirit of struggle’ to face economic challenges 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Many visit between December and February, to see what awaits them in the new solar and lunar years. In South Korea fortune-telling will soon be a $3.7bn business 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The wide-ranging assault was timed to the day marking the Vietnamese lunar year, a celebration known locally as Tet. Tet Offensive in Vietnam 50 years old 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead, the lunar year requires a leap month. What to Know About This Year's Overlapping Christmas and Hanukkah Holidays 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Warm reminder: Mid-Autumn Festival should not be confused with the Lantern Festival, a.k.a. the “Chinese Valentine’s Day,” which also falls on a lunar 15th – but in the first month of the East Asian lunar year. Mid-Autumn Festival: Five Things to Know 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The Islamic lunar year of 1427 begins with the sighting of the crescent moon after sunset, likely to be tonight across the Muslim world, making Thursday a holiday. Your Wednesday Briefing 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It falls on Saturday this year, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar year. Your Friday Briefing 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In traditional Chinese belief, the seventh month of the lunar year is reserved for the Hungry Ghost festival, or Yu Lan, a raucous celebration marked by feasts and music. AP Photos: Spirits roam during HK ghost festival 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Chinese New Year's Eve, celebrated on 30 January next year, is traditionally a time for the Chinese to reunite with families and set off firecrackers to greet the arrival of a new lunar year. China media: Retirement debate 2013-12-12T07:19:24Z The Lantern Festival, also known as Yuan Xiao Jie, is a Chinese festival celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year. Lanterns, Lanterns Everywhere 2013-02-25T17:07:32Z Thus the Deluge lasted a whole lunar year, plus eleven days—that is to say, as Ewald well remarks, a solar year of 365 days. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z For civil purposes, solar years are used in Bengal, including Orissa, and in the Tamil and Malayāḷam districts of Madras, and lunar years throughout the rest of India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z By arbitrary intercalations, it is true, they could bring the solar and lunar years to a tolerable agreement, but then, their effect was continually to change the places of the months relatively to the seasons. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Monday begins the year of the dragon, considered the luckiest of the Chinese lunar years. Having a Baby in Year of the Dragon Is Too Lucky to Be Left to Chance 2012-01-23T03:51:24Z To bring the lunar years into accordance with the solstices, it was necessary to add three intercalary months every eight years. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Perhaps the institution went back to a period when the year of twelve months had not yet been fixed, and, like the lunar year of the modern Mohammedan, it still possessed but ten months. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Consequently, the details of the lunar year are shown even in the almanacs which follow the solar year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The Islamic calendar, meanwhile, is based on the lunar year. This week in the Middle East 2010-12-23T16:59:00Z A recent lunar year that spanned two springs spurred a spike in weddings. Having a Baby in Year of the Dragon Is Too Lucky to Be Left to Chance 2012-01-23T03:51:24Z This feast during the course of thirty-three years makes a complete circuit of all the months and seasons, as the Turks reckon by lunar years. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Images of the jinns to the number of 360, one for each day of the lunar year, were collected in the temple at Mecca, the chief seat of their worship. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" For religious purposes the lunar year begins with its first lunar day: for civil purposes it begins with its first civil day, the relation of which to the lunar day will be explained below. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z It serves to find the moon's age by indicating the number of days to be added to each lunar year in order to complete a solar year. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 Following the order of the lunar year, the next festival is that of the Return of the Pilgrims, which is the occasion of great rejoicing, many having friends or relatives in the caravan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It refers to the twelve hours of the day or night, or the twelve moons of the lunar year. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Sinai was named after Sin, who, though but a moon-god, was previously held supreme for the reason that, in primitive Babylonia, the lunar year preceded the solar. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Like the lunar year, the lunar month begins for religious purposes with its first lunar day, and for civil purposes with its first civil day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The simple astronomy of our Aonic tribes of the north, gave them a lunar year, consisting of twelve moons. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 Lunar months 78 were observed in the regulation of temples, and lunar years, &c., have been suspected. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Lenormant thinks that the date in question was chosen by the Alexandrian philosopher because it coincided with the substitution, by that prince, of the solar for the lunar year. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Thus, if at one place it were spring, it would practically always be spring there, but with very cold nights all through the lunar year. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story The connection between Tet and the moon may allude, according to Wilkinson, to the primitive use of a lunar year. Moon Lore Each tribe holds the office of Prytanes in turn, the order being determined by lot; the first four serve for thirty-six days each, the last six for thirty-five, since the reckoning is by lunar years. The Athenian Constitution A cycle of 19 years, which contains 235 lunations, and results in a correspondence of the solar and lunar years. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. They measure time 67 by days, weeks, lunar months, and lunar years; yet few can ascertain their age. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Here and there, amid the old Slav, are strange words which are supposed to signify Turanian chronology, cycles of lunar years. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 The Golden number, or Grecian cycle of the lunar years, was likewise defective. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March From this period until the time when the Atlantics had put a blockade over the Athenians 9000 lunar years had passed which, referred to solar years, make 869. History of the Incas His establishment of the lunar year, and his farewell addresses. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature In fact, the 7� days by which two lunar years exceeded two solar years, amounted to thirty days, or a full month, in eight years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" See the Dissertation on the lunar year by Sir W. Jones, Asiatic Researches, iii. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems These days must be reckoned as solar and not lunar years. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era It is the belief of many, and said to be the orthodox view among the Druzes that their system as such is to last exactly 900 lunar years. The Women of the Arabs If he is nomadic he will note the recurrent births of other animals and of human children, and will connect them with the lunar year. Ancient Art and Ritual According to Beale, she was aged eighty-eight lunar years when she died, on the 27th January, 1836, equivalent to about eighty-five solar years. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official At first thirty days were a lunar year; three, four, and six months were afterwards added, and hence in the Egyptian chronology the vast number of years from the beginning of the world. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Numa reckoned the variation to consist of eleven days, as the lunar year contains three hundred and fifty-four days, and the solar year three hundred and sixty-five. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Lunar Month, a month of 29 days, the time of the revolution of the moon, a lunar year consisting of 12 times the number. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Schoolcraft did not know the date of the ceremony, but he conjectured that it fell at the end of the Iroquois year, which was a lunar year of twelve or thirteen months. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul The flight of the prophet from Mecca to Medina has fixed the memorable �ra of the Hegira, which, at the end of twelve centuries, still discriminates the lunar years of the Mahometan nations. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 But on the south, a long majestic race Of Egypt's priests the gilded niches grace, 110 Who measured earth, described the starry spheres, And traced the long records of lunar years. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 The lunar year was now sixty-five days in advance of the sun. Caesar: a Sketch Twelve lunar months give us the lunar year of about three hundred and fifty-four days. Early European History The year, before his time, consisted of but three hundred and four days, which is neither agreeable to the solar nor the lunar year. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side No institution in Islam is so peculiarly sacred as Ramadan, and none so scrupulously observed, even when, by the revolution of the lunar year, the fast falls during the bitter heat of summer. Mahomet Founder of Islam This change takes place with epact 25 only, so that the computation of the lunar years may more closely respond to the solar year. The Divine Office What could a year mean in the divine economy but the lunar year of 360 days? for was not the moon the symbol of the Church of God? The Coming of the Friars As this lunar year, like that of the Greeks, was shorter than the solar year, it had been necessary to intercalate an additional month, of varying length, in every alternate year. Early European History Who measured earth, described the starry spheres, And traced the long records of lunar years. The Pioneers With a view of avoiding difficulties arising from the extraordinary length of the patriarchal lives, certain divines suggested that the years spoken of by the sacred penman were not ordinary but lunar years. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science By his advice the lunar year was abolished, the civil year regulated entirely by the sun, and the Julian calendar introduced. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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