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- 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
漫长炎热的夏天
as modifier summer holidays暑假
figurative 〈喻〉the golden summer of her life.
她生命中的黄金时期。
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- Astronomy the period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox【天文】从夏至到秋分这段时期。
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- ( 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。
no obj.［with adverbial of place］
1- 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。
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- with obj. pasture (cattle) for the summer夏天放牧（牛）。
派生词
summery
adjective词源
Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā 'year'.