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hibernate

/hi-ber-neyt/US // ˈhɪ bərˌneɪt //UK // (ˈhaɪbəˌneɪt) //

冬眠,蛰伏,蛰居,休眠

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  1. 1

    hi·ber·nat·ed, hi·ber·nat·ing.

    • : Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals.Compare estivate.
    • : to withdraw or be in seclusion; retire.
    • : to winter in a place with a milder climate: Each winter finds us hibernating in Florida.

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Examples

  • As of November 17, two locations are officially hibernating, ceasing operations entirely for the next few months and, hopefully, reopening when it’s safer and more profitable to serve customers again.

  • You may be tempted to hibernate through the end of 2020 and beyond, but we’ve got a whole slew of books set in cold locations to keep you awake.

  • To monitor the animals’ body chemistry, “I worked in dark, cold chambers — utterly quiet —surrounded by hibernating squirrels,” Rice says.

  • That’s the coldest body temperature ever recorded in a bird or non-hibernating mammal.

  • It’s been well known that infants and hibernating animals have brown fat.

  • After these well-meaning moments they are left alone to hibernate with their own devastation.

  • The insects frequently hibernate in warmed houses, and may bite during the winter.

  • It is thought that kangaroo rats do not hibernate but remain more or less active throughout the winter.

  • We cannot well believe that they hibernate, nor is the hypothesis of a sojourn in the middle strata of mid-ocean exactly tenable.

  • In winter they hibernate like our squirrels, passing several months underground in a kind of slow and nearly motionless existence.

  • The above facts proved that it was just at the season of the year when the bear was ready to hibernate.