season

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [ˈsiː.zn̩]    美 [ˈsi.zn̩]|[ˈsɪi.zən]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Each of the divisions of a year based on the prevailing weather: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; or the rainy (monsoon) and dry season, depending on the climate.
    — we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection
  2. A period of the year when something particular happens.
    — mating season
  3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
    — He seldom was seen in the office himself, but occasionally a paragraph in the paper recorded that his yacht had touched at Mentone and that he had been seen at the Monte Carlo tables, or that he was expected in Leicestershire for the season.
  4. A year, but with emphasis on the most important part of the year in context, such as the months when plants or animals grow and reproduce. metonymically
    — This invasive species reproduces so rapidly that it can completely take over an area in just a couple seasons.
  5. The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
  6. That which gives relish; seasoning. obsolete
    — O! she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh.
  7. A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each. Australia,Canada,US
    — The third season of Robot Chicken aired from 2007 to 2008.
  8. An extended, undefined period of time. archaic
    — It was the Winter wilde. While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies: Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize: It was no ſeaſon then for her To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour.
  9. A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
    — a season of faithlessness
  10. The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
  11. A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
动词 v.
  1. To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance. transitive
    — to season oneself to a climate
  2. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt. transitive
  3. To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices. broadly,transitive
    — The timber needs to be seasoned.
  4. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate. intransitive
  5. To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance. intransitive
    — The wood has seasoned in the sun.
  6. To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture. transitive
  7. To impregnate (literally or figuratively). obsolete
    — When the male hath once ſeaſoned the female, he neuer after toucheth her.

词形变化

seasons plural seasons present,singular,third-person seasoning participle,present seasoned participle,past seasoned past seasons present,singular,third-person seasoning participle,present seasoned participle,past seasoned past

词汇关系

近义词
grow up mature alloy intermingle
衍生词
all-season tire Christmas season closed season close season cuffing season dry season earnings season end-of-season festive season gooseberry season growing season harvest season high season holiday season in good season in season in season and out of season interseason intraseason lambing season learning season low season mating season mid season mid-season midseason mid season form mid-season form miniseason monsoon season mud season multiseason nonseason off-season open season out of season peak season pollen season postseason post-season preseason rainy season rutting season seasonable seasonal seasonally season creep season finale seasonful seasonless seasonlong season parking season ticket shoulder season silly season social season spooky season stick season swooping season tax season tis the season unseasonable unseasonably unseasonally virtual season wet season yesterseason

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serō (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“to sow”), sǣd (“seed”). Doublet of saison. Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English sǣl (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English tīd (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).
词源 2
Etymology tree
French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.
Proto-Italic *serō
Latin serō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin satiōnem
Old French saison
French saison
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French assaisonnerbor.
English season
Borrowed from French assaisonner.
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