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 midsummer ['midsʌmә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 仲夏, 夏至期

a. 仲夏的




    midsummer
    [ noun ]
    June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point
    <noun.time>


    Midsummer \Mid"sum`mer\, n. [AS. midsumor.]
    The middle of summer. --Shak.

    {Midsummer daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy.

    1. The Iraqi leader's seizure of neighboring Kuwait more than two months ago led to an unprecedented U.S. military buildup in the petroleum-rich region and has doubled the price of oil since midsummer.
    2. A transaction is expected to be completed by midsummer.
    3. Stock prices edged upward today in a sluggish start to a midsummer week.
    4. Imagine my delight, then, to find that this production was no midsummer's nightmare at all but a whimsical and witty rendering of Shakespeare's fairy fantasy.
    5. Confirmation hearings for the plan are expected to be held by midsummer.
    6. Here I am talking about budgets, long-range election planning, cabinet reshuffles in midsummer next year, all as if Mr Major and his government have a comfortable period of office ahead of them.
    7. The safer time to define a candidate and his philosophy is by midsummer, not midautumn, nine days before the voters choose a president.
    8. Ohio Edison said formal hearings on the rate boost have ended and a decision is expected by midsummer.
    9. Dukakis is about six weeks behind the vice president, who has been on the television warpath with attack ads since midsummer.
    10. Landry hopes to market redfish from the pond every 22 months, with his first crop due in midsummer.
    11. Neither of those figures came as a drastic surprise to Wall Street analysts, who have been busy since midsummer trying to estimate the possible fallout from the showdown in the Middle East and a doubling of world oil prices.
    12. And the government pays higher interest rates than expected to borrow the billions needed for the bailout. Heavy short-term borrowing for working capital will swell the midsummer deficit forecast under Gramm-Rudman rules.
    13. Meanwhile the opposition was off and running early. The administration pinned a lot of its midsummer hopes on Nafta's 'side agreements', covering Mexican environmental and labour laws and guarding against import 'surges', meeting most objections.
    14. Moreover, USX won't reach normal production levels until midsummer at the earliest.
    15. But only when the industrial average was down 102 points during the session did currency trading rooms awaken from their midsummer slumber to sell the dollar out of its accustomed range.
    16. Bush made steady inroads in the presidential race after midsummer polls showed Dukakis with a wide lead.
    17. The economic and political strains that caused the midsummer pressure on the franc have abated.
    18. And though George Bush began his campaign with fanfare about courting blacks, we haven't noticed a speech or appearance toward this end since midsummer.
    19. The nominee was careful to distinguish between actions the department has taken on BCCI in recent months and those it took before he became heavily involved in the case in midsummer.
    20. Exxon's overall proposal for cleaning up the spill calls for 5,000 people scouring the shores by midsummer, with 364 miles of beaches cleaned by Sept. 15.
    21. Some 20,000 visitors probably agree with me, having propelled the takings at the gate to a record this year. In the mid-October sunshine, I followed the tracks of the TV camera in midsummer.
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