winter quarters

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. A place where a wild animal goes to live or hibernate in the winter; hibernacle.
    — In the fall, when the weather begins to get cool, the boll weevils leave the fields and go into winter quarters.
  2. A place where a farmer, beekeeper, nurseryman, etc. moves their charges in the winter.
    — It is usually a month later than this, and sometimes two months later before we put them into winter quarters. Supposing some of our best bee-keepers place a few colonies in winter quarters now and just about the last couple of favorable days before they put the rest into winter quarters, place part of them out on their summer stands and give them a fly, leaving the remainder in, and see how they winter. We are pretty well convinced that we have been in the habit of setting bees into winter quarters too late.
  3. A more permanent location where a group that normally moves around, such as an army, circus, group of explorers, etc., takes time off to shelter for the winter.
    — to go into winter quarters
  4. A place where someone spends one or more winters.
    — But the attempt which has often been made to prove that summer is as favourable a season as winter, and that invalids are extremely foolish to leave their winter quarters at the approach of spring, seems to us most injudicious.
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