diary

noun
🔊/ˈdaɪəri/
🔊/ˈdaɪəri/
(plural diaries)
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  1. a book in which you can write down the experiences you have each day, your private thoughts, etc.日记;日记簿
    • Do you keep a diary (= write one regularly)?你经常记日记吗?🔊🔊
    • Peter began writing his diary in October last year. 彼得从去年10月开始写日记。
    • the diaries of Samuel Pepys 塞缪尔·佩皮斯的日记
    • The writer's letters and diaries are being published next year.作家的来信和日记将于明年出版。
    • I think I'm going to start an online diary. 我想我将开始在线日记。
    • a travel/sleep/food diary旅行/睡眠/饮食日记
    • in a diary ‘It's all over,’ he wrote in his diary for April 21.“一切都结束了。”他在 4 月 21 日的日记中写道。
    • her diary entry for 9 December 2017她于2017年12月9日的日记条目
    see also journal, video diary
    Extra Examples
    • He jotted down observations on the animals' habits in his field diary.他在考察日记中简要记下对动物习性的观察。
    • I starting keeping a diary when I was thirteen.我十三岁开始写日记。
    • No one is allowed to read my diary.不许任何人读我的日记。
    • I used to keep a secret diary when I was a teenager.我少年时曾写私密日记。
    • She writes her thoughts down in her personal diary every night.她每天晚上都会在自己的日记中写下自己的想法。
    • The captain recorded in his diary that food supplies were running low.船长在日记中记录到粮食供应不足。
    • The play is based on the diary of Anne Frank.该剧改编自安妮·弗兰克的日记。
    • This was the very last entry in her diary.这是她最后一篇日记。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • detailed
    • daily
    • personal
    verb + diary
    • keep
    • note something in
    • record something in
    diary + noun
    • entry
    preposition
    • in a/​your diary
    phrases
    • an entry in a diary
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  2. (British English)
    (North American English appointment book, appointment calendar, datebook)
    a book or an app with spaces for each day of the year in which you can record things you have to do in the future(工作日程)记事簿
    • I used to keep a desk diary for business appointments.我过去经常为商务约会写日记。
    • an appointments diary约会日记
    • in a diary I've made a note in my diary.我在日记中作了记录。
    Extra Examples
    • I didn't have the meeting in my diary.我的记事本里没有这个会议的记录。
    • Put it in your diary before you forget.用记事本记下,免得忘了。
    • I'm afraid my diary is full for this week, but I could see you next Monday.恐怕我本周的日程已经排满了,但下周一我可与你见面。
    Topics Working lifea2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • appointments
    • bookings
    • engagement
    verb + diary
    • have something in
    • put something in
    • write something in
    preposition
    • in a/​your diary
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  3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin diarium, from dies ‘day’.