| 词汇 | dead of winter |
| 释义 | Idiom dead of winter in the middle of winter, when it is very cold and dark.Behind the house was a garden with curving flowerbeds that were beautiful, even in the dead of winter. dead of winterThe middle of winter, which is usually especially cold. I find myself dreaming of tropical islands every year in the dead of winter. dead ofThe period of greatest intensity of something, such as darkness or cold. For example, I love looking at seed catalogs in the dead of winter, when it's below zero outside. The earliest recorded use of dead of night, for "darkest time of night," was in Edward Hall's Chronicle of 1548: "In the dead of the night ... he broke up his camp and fled." Dead of winter, for the coldest part of winter, dates from the early 1600s. the dead of winterthe coldest part of winter.The sense of dead here and in the previous idiom developed in the 16th century from dead time of —, meaning the period most characterized by lack of signs of life or activity. dead of night/winter, theThe time of most intense stillness, darkness, or cold. This usage dates from the sixteenth century. Shakespeare had it in Twelfth Night (1.5), “Even in the dead of night,” and Washington Irving used the alternate phrase in Salmagundi (1807–08), “In the dead of winter, when nature is without charm.” |
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