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midwinter

/noun mid-win-ter, -win-; adjective mid-win-ter/US // noun ˈmɪdˈwɪn tər, -ˌwɪn-; adjective ˈmɪdˌwɪn tər //UK // (ˈmɪdˈwɪntə) //

隆冬时节,隆冬,隆冬季节,仲冬时节

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the middle of winter.
    • : the winter solstice, around December 22.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or occurring in the middle of the winter.

Examples

  • And in Moominland Midwinter Jansson immortalised her life-partner Tuulikki as wise, life-embracing Too-ticky.

  • The smell of barbecue wafted through the air of an absolutely beautiful, spring-like midwinter day.

  • Midwinter Madness A suicidal woman is persuaded from the edge of a subway platform.

  • Even the English grass, bright green in midwinter, only added to the sense of unreality.

  • It was midwinter, when the old man brought the gifts, the time of the pale, cold moon.

  • I was ill prepared for a journey in midwinter through the enemy's country: happily I had my old overcoat, and this I put on.

  • One morning in the midwinter, when it was very cold with seventy degrees of frost, Regis Brugiere resolved to hunt the deer.

  • With the coming of midwinter a somnolent period seemed also to occur in Hollister's affairs.