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    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++au·gust /ɔːˈɡʌst $ ɒː-/ adjective  ADMIREimpressive and respected 威严的，尊严的，庄严的 an august institution 庄严的机构
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    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 [countable, uncountable] (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 English He arrived at Berwick on 6th August 1823. 1823年8月6日他来到伯威克。August 6 American English We’ll expect you to call August 6. 我们8月6日等你打电话来。
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    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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    august
    au‧gust /ɔːˈɡʌst $ ɒː-/ adjective
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: Latin
     Origin: augustus
    impressive and respected:
        an august institution


    August
    Au‧gust /ˈɔːɡəst $ ˈɒː-/ noun [uncountable and countable] (written abbreviation Aug.)
     Date: 1000-1100
     Language: Latin
     Origin: Augustus, from Augustus Caesar (63BC - AD14), Roman emperor
    the eighth month of the year, between July and September
        next/last August
        I was there last August.
        in August
        My birthday’s in August.
        on August 6th
        The new store opened on August 6th.
        on 6th August British English:
        He arrived at Berwick on 6th August 1823.
        August 6 American English:
        We’ll expect you to call August 6.


    au·gustBrE /ɔːˈɡʌst/ 🔊NAmE /ɔːˈɡʌst/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (formal) impressive, making you feel respect 威严的；庄严的


    🔑 Au·gustBrE /ˈɔːɡəst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɔːɡəst/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] (abbreviation Aug.) the 8th month of the year, between July and September 八月◆(BrE) August Bank Holiday (= a public holiday on the last Monday in August in Britain) 八月银行假日（英国公共假日，八月最后一个星期一） HELP To see how August is used, look at the examples at April. * August 的用法见词条 April 下的示例。