sum‧mer 1 S1 W1 / sʌmə $ -ər / 名词 [可数和不可数名词]

1 the time of the year when the sun is hottest and the days are longest, between spring and autumn → summery :

the long hot summer of 1976

The children play on the beach during the summer.

in (the) summer

Miriam likes to relax in her garden in summer.

this/next/last summer

We’re going to Italy next summer.

a hot summer’s day

a sunny summer afternoon

a three-week summer vacation

early/late summer

The tourist season lasts through late summer.

Parts of Spain are extremely hot in high summer (= the hottest part of summer ) .

2 20/50 etc summers literary 20, 50 etc years of age :

a child of 11 summers

→ Indian summer

COLLOCATIONS

形容词

hot It had been a long hot summer.

dry/wet We’ve had a very dry summer.

high summer (= the middle of summer ) In high summer, food was plentiful.

early/late summer In the late summer of 1931, Joe returned to Oxford.

last/next summer He visited Brittany last summer.

summer + NOUN

a summer holiday British English , a summer vacation American English Where are you going for your summer holiday?

a summer’s day/evening ( also a summer day/evening ) It was a beautiful summer’s day.

the summer months The garden is open daily in the summer months.

the summer season The resort was crammed with holidaymakers for the whole of the summer season.

the summer heat Crowds of shoppers are sweltering in the summer heat.

the summer sun They lay on the beach, soaking up the summer sun.

短语

in/at the height of summer (= in the middle of summer ) Even in the height of summer, it’s cool in here.