| 单词 | autumn |
| 释义 | autumn (once / 205 pages) n Autumn is the season after summer, when leaves fall from trees. It's also the season when the days get shorter and colder, and everything turns brown and drab, but people like it anyway, for the cocoa and cider, probably. Autumn is the third season of the year, coming after summer and before winter, and coinciding with the dropping of leaves from the trees as they go into a winter rest, which is why it's also called fall. We also use autumn metaphorically to talk about the seasons of a person's life, like that luminous older actress in the autumn of her career: she's not yet playing roles in nursing homes, but neither is she scampering around in bikinis. WORD FAMILYautumn: autumnal, autumns+/autumnal: autumnally USAGE EXAMPLESGoff was down there, somewhere, sacked by giants, handcuffed by his coaches, left lying in the limbo of a lost autumn. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) In the summer and autumn, she picked cotton in Arizona, and Raul worked alongside her, a child bent over in the fields. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) If their arms fail to bounce back in 2017, critics, including Chapman himself, will point to overuse this autumn. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) n the season when the leaves fall from the trees Syn|Hyper fall season, time of year one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions |
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