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单词 autumn
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autumn
(ɔːtəm )
Word forms: autumns
variable noun A2
Autumn is the season between summer and winter when the weather becomes cooler and the leaves fall off the trees. [British]
We are always plagued by wasps in autumn.
A final vote will take place next autumn.
...in the autumn of 2000.
Her hair was the colour of autumn leaves.
regional note:   in AM, usually use fall
Collocations:
a mild autumn
It flourishes in a mild autumn such as this year's has been.
Times, Sunday Times
All of which came as a shock after what had largely been a mild autumn.
Times, Sunday Times
A mild autumn and early winter meant that food was easier to find.
Times, Sunday Times
After a good growing season, but a very wet summer and a mild autumn, almost all the trees were in big leaf and the earth was waterlogged.
The Times Literary Supplement
a wet autumn
We also need a wet autumn and winter to replenish water supplies.
Times, Sunday Times
However, there was little danger of water supplies running short, after a wet autumn and early winter.
Times, Sunday Times
A wet autumn followed by a mild, largely frost-free winter and damp weather since then have been perfect for the mollusks.
Times, Sunday Times
A wet autumn or the old scourge of potato blight can wipe out the lot.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn air
In the crisp autumn air, we spoke words of love over the one who had been the family catalyst.
Christianity Today
Behind the scenes, though, overdue change floated in the golden autumn air.
Times, Sunday Times
But inside, here in the amphitheatre of the first tee, those with the golden tickets are already in place, cold breath and coffee steam mixing in the chill autumn air.
The Sun
Or the twilight of autumn air.
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autumn chill
It sleeps up to 30 and has underfloor heating to keep out the autumn chill.
Times, Sunday Times
A bracing breeze of optimism arrives with the first autumn chill.
Times, Sunday Times
Normally, the first hint of autumn chill means the housing market bursts back into life after the holiday lull.
Times, Sunday Times
Perfect to help keep out the autumn chill.
The Sun
After a healthy summer for skips, a few days ago they all went away, vanishing with the autumn chill, before a couple reappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn colour
Its autumn colour will be on display from noon until dusk.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In a good year the autumn colour can be electric.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Those listed here give good autumn colour, winter bark or early spring blossom.
Bloom, Adrian Winter Garden Glory (1993)
The autumn colour - pure butter yellow - is totally reliable.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
These are plants that reflect the autumn and early winter scene beautifully; small trees and dainty shrubs cloaked in unrivalled autumn colour and bearing delightful winged fruit.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
autumn evening
I still asso- ciate it with deep, deep comfort and the thrill of a read in a deep armchair on a chil- ly autumn evening.
Times, Sunday Times
On this damp and misty autumn evening it couldn't be more 'atmospheric', in the way visitors always hope it's going to be.
Times, Sunday Times
We're crunching on a gravel driveway and there's a chill in the autumn evening.
Times, Sunday Times
And 20 minutes later, as our friends are arriving in the dark autumn evening, the piece of ham emerges.
Times, Sunday Times
It was an early autumn evening, warm still, already dark.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn flower
Also in the reeds there are vivid splashes of reddish-purple, where clumps of an autumn flower, purple loosestrife, are now big and bright.
Times, Sunday Times
The stems of older specimens arch low, bringing to nose-height their stiff but luxurious autumn flower spikes.
Times, Sunday Times
Its late autumn flowers are loved by bees; its long-lasting winter berries by birds.
Times, Sunday Times
What kind of colours do you like to see in autumn flowers?
Times,Sunday Times
Start planting colchicum corms for their colourful autumn flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn foliage
This one has yellowy-green stems in summer, a fabulous orange-red autumn foliage, and the colder it gets, the more goldenyellow its stems become.
Times,Sunday Times
Most of them also have a good autumn foliage colour too.
Times, Sunday Times
Deciduous azaleas have fragrant flowers in spring and colourful autumn foliage.
The Sun
Excellent autumn foliage with purple tinges on some leaves and some fully colouring up.
Times, Sunday Times
Autumn foliage turns shades of orange and red.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn fruit
This year should also bring the best crop of autumn fruit on bramble, rowan and elder since the trust's records started 12 years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
They make the most of the abundant autumn fruit, but they cannot survive on fruit alone, and turn to damp lawns or newly dug earth to pull out earthworms.
Times, Sunday Times
Red, orange and yellow are the colours we first think of with autumn fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
Ornamentally trained fruit trees give great value, with their spring blossom, autumn fruit and fine, wintry skeletons.
Times, Sunday Times
And autumn fruit production and fence-posting are only the beginning of a pear tree's versatile gifts.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn harvest
Generations of schoolchildren learn the story of their voyage and settlement; the grandest public holiday of the year celebrates the colony's survival to the first autumn harvest.
The Times Literary Supplement
Even so, the autumn harvest promised to be abundant; however, swarms of locusts descended upon the fields and destroyed the young crops.
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During the autumn harvest, fruit are often simmered and spiced to create fruit stews (kompots).
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A few others are in autumn (about a month after autumn harvest).
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autumn leaf
With perfect blossom, glossy fruits and good autumn leaf colour, it more than lives up to its name.
Times, Sunday Times
Spray again before autumn leaf fall to further reduce surviving spores.
The Sun
All five trees have lovely autumn leaf colour, hawthorn and mountain ash also have colourful berries for the birds.
The Sun
In fact, we now have the type of weather that could bring out the best of the autumn leaf colours.
Times, Sunday Times
I have nostalgic memories of lighting the autumn leaf pile in our suburban garden and then rescuing the flambéed tortoise.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn months
They then disappear for the summer and autumn months to reappear again in late winter.
Times, Sunday Times
That was thanks to a newly installed woodburning boiler, which smells better, gives a lovely atmosphere for seeddrying during the autumn months and uses sustainable fuel.
The Sun
Attractive marbled leaves are visible for up to nine months of the year, with a fine display of dainty mauve to pale pink scented flowers throughout the autumn months.
Times, Sunday Times
Clean, perfectly shaped leaves are brought in by truck during the autumn months and scattered on the litter-free pavements.
Times, Sunday Times
Plant in full sun or partial shade and enjoy how the purple colour intensifies to red in autumn months.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn morning
On a sparkling autumn morning, a storm seemed impossible.
Times, Sunday Times
Choose a friend who will stick to the plan and not guide you to the biscuit tin on a chilly autumn morning.
Times, Sunday Times
We were very, very excited about it and got there zonked out on a beautiful autumn morning at about seven.
The Sun
Twenty years on, a sunny autumn morning brings a few dozen strollers to the run-down seafront.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a beautiful autumn morning, with a thin gauze of cloud not quite blocking the blue sky beyond.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn rains
But it quickly passes and the autumn rains begin.
Times, Sunday Times
One after another, once-bustling factories are falling silent and closing their doors while unsold consignments of toys rot in the autumn rains.
Times, Sunday Times
It's not so much the autumn rains that leave container plants so soggy, it's also the reduced demand for water from the plants.
Times,Sunday Times
The majority are without shelter, and what they have consists of the flimsiest kind of tents, absolutely no protection from the heavy autumn rains which will soon be coming.
Times, Sunday Times
When the autumn rains began, the ground rapidly became inches deep in water.
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autumn season
There's a wonderful thespian creak to the autumn season.
Times, Sunday Times
It's one of the outstanding exhibitions of the autumn season.
Times, Sunday Times
Nice positive start to the autumn season then.
Times, Sunday Times
The unusually long autumn season enhanced the quality of all the grape varieties.
Times, Sunday Times
Fashion stores have enjoyed a good start to the autumn season.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn sunshine
But after reading it, analysis of the chancellor's autumn statement seemed like a pleasant stroll in the autumn sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday, perspiring in warm autumn sunshine, his trainer did so, too, claiming the prize that had so maddeningly eluded him despite three previous runners-up and a host of misfortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
With 'afternoon tea' being served and with bulldogs and proctors aplenty, in the warm autumn sunshine in the perfect setting, a splendid time was guaranteed for all.
Times, Sunday Times
Appreciation of autumn sunshine was the right sense of priorities for a chancellor amid a currency crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
They need a sheltered position that will get both summer and autumn sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
autumn wind
Crimson wings above an unknown sea in autumn wind.
Times, Sunday Times
The chapel's large wooden doors suddenly burst open mid-interview and a gust of autumn wind blows into the room.
The Sun
Autumn winds always blow political spouses into the spotlight.
Times, Sunday Times
I like to see the way plants move in autumn winds, the life of the season writ large on the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
It's this time of year when grasses make such a difference to a garden, bowed down with the weight of morning dew or thrashing in the autumn winds.
Times, Sunday Times
early autumn
While the ground-source heat pump is superefficient and constant, the airsource pump is effective only in summer and early autumn.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The early autumn follows the warmest, driest and sunniest summer since 2006.
The Sun (2013)
Meconopsis can be propagated by division, best done in either early spring or early autumn.
The Sun (2011)
The route can be walked in the summer and early autumn.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
When they come in early autumn, the old-timers call them ` line storms", since they demarcate the boundary line between summer and fall.
Tapply, William G THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
late autumn
In borders, they benefit from winter protection; spread a thick mulch of bark chippings over the ground in late autumn.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Lightly fork over the soil in late autumn to expose overwintering sawflies to predators and the elements.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In the Old Kingdom, beyond the Wall that lay thirty miles to the north, it was late autumn.
Garth Nix LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR (2001)
The branches of trees were alive with birds, and hung with the ripening fruits of late autumn.
Forrest, Roberta WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM (2002)
Steely blue or green prickly leaves shape an architectural form that also looks good in decay into the late autumn.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
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