| 单词 | summer heat |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer heat summer heat n. the heat of summer; an instance of hot summer weather; (also) a temperature typical of the summer.An essentially arbitrary temperature labelled summer heat was commonly marked on thermometers in the 19th and early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heat of the summer (solstice) summer heatOE solstice1643 OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) xl. 64 Gif þonne þære stowe neod oþþe gedeorf oðþe sumerhæte hwylces eacan behofige, sy þæt on ðæs abbodes dome. c1391 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Huntington) vii. l. 3213* (MED) Whan comen is the somer heete. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 198 For that [brik] is maad in somer heete To sone is drie, and forto chyne is like. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant xii. 146 The Climate is so Temperate, that the Winters are never excessively Cold, and the Summer-Heats are usually allay'd with a pleasant Brieze. 1782 W. Cowper Retirement in Poems 268 Her [sc. Nature's] summer heats, her fruits, and her perfumes. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 319 If the instrument is..intended chiefly to measure the higher degrees of heat, as from a summer-heat to that of boiling water. 1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 64 The Summer-heat may never be strong enough to melt all the ice. 1947 Pop. Mech. Apr. 118/1 Residents move to the mountains when summer heat clamps down. 2010 J. Al-Khalili Pathfinders i. 8 In order to beat the summer heat, families would have slept up on the flat roof at night. < as lemmas |
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