【summer音标】 英[ˈsʌmə(r)] 美[ˈsʌmər]
【单词释义】 summer是什么意思：
n.夏，夏天；全盛时期，黄金时代，壮年时期；[建]大梁，檀条，楣，柱顶石；岁数
adj.夏季的
v.度过夏季，避暑；使度过夏季，夏季放牧（家畜）
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] summers
【summer形近词/近似词】
glimmer n.微光，闪光；少许 v.发微光；隐约出现
stammer n.口吃，结巴 v.结巴地说出；口吃
shimmer n.微光；闪光 vi.闪烁，发微光
drummer n. 鼓手；旅行推销员
hummer n. 蜂鸟；蜂鸣器，发嗡嗡声的东西
hammer n.锤子；木槌
【常用短语】
summer vacation 暑假
【单词例句】
◇ But which one did he like?Spring went by, and summer drew towards its close; autumn came; but he had not decided.
不过他究竟喜欢谁呢？春天过去了，夏天也快要告一结束。现在是秋天了，但是他仍然犹豫不决。
---- The Butterfly
◇ I will get up every night and pray for you, in the winter that you may warm yourselves near a fire, and in the summer that you may not suffer from the heat.
我每天晚上都会起来为你们祈祷，祈祷你们在冬天能有炉火暖暖身子，祈祷你们在夏天不要中暑。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous!
从前有一个小女孩 —— 一个非常可爱的、漂亮的小女孩。不过她夏天得打着一双赤脚走路，因为她很贫穷。冬天她拖着一双沉重的木鞋，脚背都给磨红了，这是很不好受的。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ Before either word emerged in the lexicon, the season between summer and winter was known as harvest, or hærfest in Old English.
在这两个词出现之前，夏天和冬天之间的这个季节在英语中被称为harvest，古英语是hærfest。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ (8)Every summer,we hold the Chengdu International Sister Cities Youth Music Festival.
(8)我们每年夏天都会举办成都国际友城青年音乐周。
---- FISU Games Sentences for Citizens (3)
◇ Summer is coming. When those days come, every second you spend outside feels like a dehydrating walk through the sauna. But don’t sweat. There are ways to cool your body down without resorting to a portable AC unit.
酷夏即将来临。当最热的时候到来时，在室外的每一秒都像是桑拿屋里的脱水之旅。但是别紧张，总有让你不用便携空调也能保持身体凉爽的方法。
---- How to keep your body cool
◇ Though the two rims face each other across only 12 miles, it is a journey of 214 miles by car from one to the other. Nor can you visit the North Rim except in summer; some 1,200 feet higher than the South Rim, it is snow covered much of the year except in July and August.
尽管南北两缘面对面相隔只有12英里，可是坐车从一边到另一边的距离却是214英里。北缘只能在夏天参观；它比南缘高出1 200英尺左右；除了7、8月外，其它大部分时间都为冰雪覆盖。
---- The Grand Canyon
◇ One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said.
突然，在一个夏日，男孩回到树旁，树很高兴。“来和我玩吧！”树说。
---- A Boy and His Tree