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spring-cleaning

/spring-klee-ning/US // ˈsprɪŋˈkli nɪŋ //

春季大扫除,春季清扫,春季大清扫,春季清洁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
    • : the activity of giving a place a complete cleaning: We've been involved in spring-cleaning and are exhausted.

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.

  • One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.

  • Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.

  • They ranged from moving trunks to cleaning cisterns, and, by grace of all of them, Sim was doing very well.

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

  • I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.

  • In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.

  • The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.