Autumn
['ɔːtəm] or ['ɔtəm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.
(n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.
(n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
埃斯特尔校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fall, fall of the leaf.
恩里科整理
解釋/意思:
n. the third season of the year when fruits are gathered in popularly comprising the months of August September and October—in North America September October and November. Astronomically in the northern hemisphere it begins at the autumnal equinox when the sun enters Libra 22d September and ends at the winter solstice when the sun enters Capricorn 21st December.—adj. Autum′nal.—adv. Autum′nally.
克雷格編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
For a woman to dream of Autumn, denotes she will obtain property through the struggles of others. If she thinks of marrying in Autumn, she will be likely to contract a favorable marriage and possess a cheerful home.
手打:苏珊
例句/造句/用法:
- I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But it's no joke, you know--if she stays here all the autumn she'll spoil everything, and Maria Van Osburgh will simply exult. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And yet as we saw it that autumn morning, it was not its beauty which would be the first thing to impress the observer. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They could go there again with them in the autumn. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and the skin of it was as yellow and dry and withered as an autumn leaf. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In the autumn, new trials and experiences came to Meg. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She peeped into her grandfather's room, through which the fresh autumn air was blowing from the open window. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The tide ebbed, and the tide flowed; the summer went on, and the autumn came. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It was late in autumn when I quitted the district where I had so long resided. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
錄入:温德尔