Autumn

(n.) The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

(n.) The harvest or fruits of autumn.

(n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

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• I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But it's no joke, you know--if she stays here all the autumn she'll spoil everything, and Maria Van Osburgh will simply exult. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• And yet as we saw it that autumn morning, it was not its beauty which would be the first thing to impress the observer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They could go there again with them in the autumn. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and the skin of it was as yellow and dry and withered as an autumn leaf. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In the autumn, new trials and experiences came to Meg. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She peeped into her grandfather's room, through which the fresh autumn air was blowing from the open window. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The tide ebbed, and the tide flowed; the summer went on, and the autumn came. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It was late in autumn when I quitted the district where I had so long resided. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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