Indian summer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɪn.dɪ.ən ˈsʌ.mə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈɪn.di.ən ˈsʌ.mɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stretch of sunny and warm, often hazy, days during late autumn. offensive,possibly
    — Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.
  2. The late autumn of life; a late flowering of activity before old age. figuratively
    — Thus, while at times before our eye / The clouds about the present part, / And, smiling through them, round us lie / Soft hues of Memory's evening sky – / The Indian summer of the heart, / In secret sympathies of mind, / In founts of feeling which retain / Their pure fresh flow, we yet may find / Our early dreams not wholly vain!
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Indian, summer.

词形变化

Indian summers plural

词源

Of North American origin, exact etymology uncertain. The most plausible suggestions are that Native Americans (or American Indians) called it a form of “summer” due to harvesting late plants or preparing for winter, or that European settlers coined it due to various Native American activities in this season, or due to the weather phenomenon being associated with regions inhabited by Native Americans. Alternatively, the use of the word Indian may indicate something deviating from the norm: compare terms like Indian bread, Indian corn.
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