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farewell-to-spring

/fair-wel-tuh-spring/US // fɛərˈwɛl təˈsprɪŋ //

告别春天,送别春天,欢送春天,欢送春季

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a slender, showy plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, native to western North America, having satiny, cup-shaped, lilac-crimson or reddish-pink flowers and roundish fruit.

Examples

  • She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

  • This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.

  • It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • There was something cathartic about deleting this 2,500-word monster of a farewell, and resolving to live.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.

  • It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.