Word familynounwintermidwinterwintererwinterizationwintrinesswinterberrywinterbournewintergreenwinter solsticewinter sportswintertidewintertimeadjectivewintrywinteredwinterlesswinterlyverbwinterwinterizewinterkilladverbwintrily
Fuel supplies could be seriously disrupted this winter.
今年冬季燃料供应可能会受到严重影响。
nGRAMMAR: Patterns with winter
in winter/in the winter
You use in winter or in the winter when saying that something happens at that time:
It often snows here in winter.
We’re going skiing in the winter.
last winter/this winter etc
Don’t use in with these words:
You say last winter:
Last winter the temperature fell to minus 20 degrees.
✗Don’t say: In last winter the temperature fell to minus 20 degrees.
You say this winter:
We’ve had a lot of snow this winter.
✗Don’t say: We’ve had a lot of snow in this winter.
You say next winter:
Next winter she will turn 18.
✗Don’t say: In next winter she will turn 18.
You say that winter:
The lake froze over that winter.
✗Don’t say: The lake froze over in that winter.
COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
cold 寒冷的
That winter was particularly cold.
那个冬天特别冷。
severe/hard/harsh (=very cold) 严寒的/严酷的/寒冷的
In a hard winter, many birds starve.
在严寒的冬天,许多鸟忍饥挨饿。
mild (=not very cold) 温暖的
Winters here are generally mild.
这里的冬天通常是温暖的。
nlong (=lasting a long time)
The long winter finally came to an end.
winter + NOUN
the winter months 冬季月份
During the winter months the town is often cut off.
冬天的几个月里,这个镇常常与外界隔绝。
winter coat/shoes (=designed for winter) 冬衣/冬鞋
nI need a new winter coat.
phrases
in the depths of winter (=in the middle of the winter) 在隆冬
nEven in the depths of winter, the harbour is never completely frozen.
nthe onset of winter
She dreaded the onset of winter.
Examples from the Corpus
winter• Both in summer and winter thousands came to the mountains, returning home with yoghurt, cheese and other products.• After the hard winter of 1848, the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, where her sisters lived.• In winter the frozenriver is the only route into Zanskar.• In winter, ricefields were bare and brown, but there was the anticipation of spring planting just around the corner.• The compartments have little curtains in the windows; the lamps are lit; it's eleven a.m. but still winter.• In the summer, open windows and in the winter, turn on the heating so it is warm and welcoming.• In the winter, it had taken several days at room temperature before they showed any signs of life.• It was winter at last and a coolbreezeblew at night.
STAY WITH SB, IN A HOTEL ETCto spend the winter somewhere 〔在某处〕过冬 → summer
Last year, over 11,000 Canadians wintered in Arizona.
去年有超过11,000名加拿大人在亚利桑那州过冬。
Examples from the Corpus
winter• About 100 are now found wintering fairly regularly in Bosham Creek.• Maynard Bolster, wintering from Kalispell, Mont., is in his customaryseat, dutifully keeping score.• As many as 80,000 knot spend their winters here - that's around a quarter of the totalpopulation wintering in Britain.• Except in very cold weather, however, the numbers wintering in Sussex are never very large.