【winter音标】 英[ˈwɪntə(r)] 美[ˈwɪntər]
【单词释义】 winter是什么意思：
n.冬，冬天；年岁；萧条期，衰落期
v.过冬；使受冻，使萎缩；冬季饲养（家畜）
adj.冬天的，冬季的；越冬的；冬播的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] winters [第三人称单数] winters
[单词现在分词] wintering
[单词过去式] wintered
[单词过去分词] wintered
【winter形近词/近似词】
printer n.打印机；印刷机；印刷商；印刷厂，印刷公司；印刷工人
painter n.画家；油漆匠
disinter vt.掘出；发掘；使显现
【常用短语】
winter vacation 寒假
【单词例句】
◇ By good luck, the door stood open and the duckling flew out among the bushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter.
幸好大门是开着的。他钻进灌木林中新下的雪里面去。他躺在那里，彻底地筋疲力尽。要是只讲他在这严冬所受到困苦和灾难，那么这个故事也就太悲惨了。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ 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
◇ The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Winter, the 19th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 8 and ends on Nov 21.
中国传统二十四节气的第19个节气是立冬，今年的立冬从11月8日开始，11月21日结束。
---- Start of Winter
◇ 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?
◇ Even if you and your partner spend the night at each other's places all the time, your family's standards can be a different story, making sleeping arrangements a potentially fraught topic. Winter recommends treading carefully.
即使你和伴侣经常在对方的住所里过夜，但是在父母家里过夜则是另一回事，可能会带来一些烦恼。温特建议对这件事要小心斟酌。
---- How to introduce your partner to your family
◇ Winter arrived, the weather is becoming more and more cold, the mice are all squeezed in a piece, but warm. But the day is cold, must want to have a dinner, this is not to eat but will starve to death.
冬天到了，天气也越来越冷了，小老鼠们都挤在一块，可暖和了。但天虽冷，总得要吃饭吧，这不吃饭可是会饿死的啊。