summer

summer1
noun
  1. the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February
    夏，夏季
    the plant flowers in late summer.
    这种植物在夏末开花。
    a long hot summer.
    漫长酷热的夏天。
    [as modifier]summer holidays.
    暑假。
    the golden summer of her life.
    她生命中的黄金时期。
    ■(Astronomy)the period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
    (天文)从夏至到秋分这段时期
    ■(summers)( poetic/literary)years, especially of a person's age
    (诗/文)年，岁
    a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers.
    十六、七岁的女孩。
verb
  1. [no obj.][with adverbial of place]spend the summer in a particular place
    避暑，过夏
    well over 100 birds summered there in 1976.
    1976年有100多只鸟在那里过夏。
    ■[with obj.]pasture (cattle) for the summer
    夏天放牧（牛）
派生
summery
adjective
语源
  1. Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā 'year'
summer2
(亦作 summer tree)
noun
  1. a horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters
    大梁，过梁
语源
  1. Middle English: from Old French somier 'packhorse', from late Latin sagmarius, from Greek sagma 'packsaddle'
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