1. 1nA2/ˈɔːtəm/秋天

    The season between summer and winter, when it gets cooler and leaves fall.

    示範例句 · Example

    In autumn, the leaves on the trees turn red and gold.

    逐字在秋天,樹上的葉子變成紅色和金色。

    「autumn」就是「秋天」——夏天和冬天中間的季節,樹葉變色、天氣轉涼。英式英文用 autumn,美式英文常說 fall(因為葉子會 fall 落下)。注意:講「在秋天」要用 in autumn 或 in the autumn,介系詞用 in。

    常見搭配

    • autumn leaves

      秋葉 / 落葉

      leaves that have changed colour or fallen in autumn

      The children played in the pile of autumn leaves.

    • in autumn

      在秋天

      during the autumn season

      Birds fly south in autumn.

    • early/late autumn

      初秋 / 深秋

      the beginning or end part of autumn

      The mornings get cold in late autumn.

    意思相近

    fall

    用法接近

    seasonwintersummer

    意思相反

    spring

core核心畫面

Picture the season between summer and winter — leaves turning yellow and red and drifting down, the air getting a little cooler each day.

可以想成夏天和冬天之間的那段季節:樹葉由綠轉黃、轉紅,一片片落下,空氣也一天天變涼。

同家族的字

複數 autumns

意思相近

fall

用法接近

seasonwintersummer

意思相反

spring

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Autumnname

  • 1

    A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.

autumnnoun/ˈɔːtəm/

  • 1

    Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.

    • autumn leaves
    • The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […]
  • 2

    The time period when someone or something is past its prime.

    • She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.
    • It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above.
  • 3

    fashionlifestyleA person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

autumnverb/ˈɔːtəm/

  • 1

    To spend the autumn (in a particular place).

    • True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
    • If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]
  • 2

    To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.

    • The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!”
    • […]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…]

autumnadj

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