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单词 summer solstice
释义 summer solstice
The time at which the sun reaches the summer tropic, i.e. in the northern hemisphere, the tropic of Cancer, in the southern hemisphere, the tropic of Capricorn; occas. applied to the tropic itself.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 37 Distant fiue degreis fra oure symmyr solstice, callit the borial tropic of cancer.1601Holland Pliny II. 245 About the Summer solstice it sheweth a red floure.1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 23 Five days after our Summer Solstice we had soundings 14 Fathom.1837Brewster Magnet. 217 The declination has never diminished between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice.1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 119 From the 21st of June to the 22d of September, the Earth passes from the Summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
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