summer

noun

1. 夏天；夏季
   the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and autumn/fall
   1. We're going away in the summer .
      夏天我们要外出。
   2. It's very hot here in summer .
      这里夏天很热。
   3. in the summer of 2005
      在2005年夏季
   4. late/early summer
      夏末；初夏
   5. this/next/last summer
      今年 / 下一个 / 上一个夏天
   6. a cool/hot/wet summer
      凉爽的 / 炎热的 / 多雨的夏天
   7. It is now high summer (= the hottest part of summer) .
      正值盛夏。
   8. a summer's day
      夏日
   9. a summer dress
      夏天穿的连衣裙
   10. the summer holidays/vacation
       暑假
   11. two summers ago
       两年前

1. See also: I escaped the heatwave in London earlier this summer and flew to Cork... It was a perfect summer's day. ...in the summer of 1987. ...the summer holidays... He used to spend childhood summers with his grandparents. high summer Indian summer

1. Next summer's exams would be straightforward to administer and mark.
   明年夏天的考试在执行和评分上都将很简单。
2. For most of the spring and early summer her base was her home in Scotland.
   春天和初夏的大部分时间，她都是在苏格兰的家里度过的。
3. Last summer, he chucked his 10-year career as a London stockbroker and headed for the mountains.
   去年夏天，他辞掉做了10年的伦敦股票经纪人的工作，去了山区。
4. The summer came to an end
   夏天结束了。
5. The summer drought has dealt a heavy blow to the government's economic record
   夏季的干旱已经对政府的经济业绩造成了沉重打击。
6. Here comes the summer
   夏天到了。
7. It was a hot, humid summer day
   这是个炎热潮湿的夏日。
8. It bears clusters of mauve flowers in early summer.
   初夏时节，它开出了一簇簇淡紫色的花。
9. Pat and I resigned ourselves to yet another summer without a boat
   我和帕特在没有船的情况下勉强又凑合了一个夏天。
10. In the summer, when we returned to Canada, we revisited this lake at dawn.
    夏天我们回到加拿大后，在黎明时分重游了这个湖泊。
11. I escaped the heatwave in London earlier this summer and flew to Cork
    今年初夏我逃离了伦敦的炎热，飞往科克去避暑。
12. It was a perfect summer's day.
    那是一个美好的夏日。
13. He used to spend childhood summers with his grandparents.
    他小时候夏天都是和爷爷奶奶一起度过的。
14. Thatch is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer.
    茅草料天生冬暖夏凉。
15. The tidal predictions are expressed in Greenwich Mean Time. Add one hour for British Summer Time
    潮汐预报用的是格林尼治标准时间。英国夏令时要在标准时基础上加一小时。
16. Twice before he had been in New York with Gladys on summer vacations.
    他之前已经和格拉迪丝两次来到纽约度暑假。
17. During his summer vacation he visited Russia
    暑假期间他去俄罗斯了。
18. His 36ft yacht sank suddenly last summer.
    他那36英尺长的游艇去年夏天突然沉没了。
19. Tomorrow will be the Summer Solstice.
    明天就交夏至了。
20. Where are you going for your vacation this summer?
    今年夏天你去哪儿度假？
21. I enjoyed an agreeable holiday this summer.
    今年夏天我度过了一个愉快的假期。
22. Where do you intend to go this summer?
    今年夏天你准备到哪儿去？
23. We'll start another summer vacation when July comes.
    到了7月我们又该放暑假了。
24. The long summer vacation is over.
    漫长的暑假结束了。
25. It has been especially hot this summer.
    今年夏天特别热。
26. This has been the hottest summer within my memory.
    就我记忆所及，这是最热的一个夏天。
27. She has been away, spending the summer in Dalian.
    她离开了一段时间，在大连过夏天。
28. The days get shorter after the Summer Solstice.
    过了夏至，天就开始变短。
29. We have the rains in early summer.
    我们这儿的雨季在初夏。
30. We've had too much rain this summer.
    今年夏天雨水太多了。

n.

one swallow doesn't make a summer

• 别略有好事就以为佳时已到；好事可能纯属偶然；一燕不成夏（不能单凭微小的迹象而下定论）
  you must not take too seriously a small sign that sth is happening or will happen in the future, because the situation could change

noun

1. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
   1. the golden summer of his life

2. the warmest season of the year
   1. they spent a lazy summer at the shore

   Synonym:    summertime

verb

1. spend the summer
   1. We summered in Kashmir