Because the Earth's axis is tilted, the length of a day changes during the course of a year, with the longest stretch of daylight in midsummer, and the shortest day falling in midwinter.

轴是倾斜的，所以在一年中，白天的时长有所变化，在夏至时，白天的时间最长，而在冬至时，白天的时间最短。

GNC members have promised fresh national elections by midsummer.

GNC成员已经承诺在盛夏时举行新的选举。

I live somewhere between " unconditional" and " midsummer, " in Midtown Manhattan.

我住在一个在“无条件的”和“夏至“之间的方 在曼哈顿中部。

While he stood the dawn grew visible in the northeast quarter of the heavens, which, the clouds having cleared off, was bright with a soft sheen at this midsummer time, though it was only between one and two o'clock.

他站着的时候，天空的东北面已经渐渐露出曙色，在这仲夏季，虽然还只是一两点钟，云彩散尽，夜空泛出一层柔和的亮光。

Then three or four of the Red Dwarfs came forward with their tinder boxes and set light to the pile, which first crackled, and then blazed, and finally roared as a woodland bonfire on midsummer night ought to do.

这时，三四个红发小矮人拿着火柴走上前去，点燃了上的干柴。先是点点火星，然后蹿点点火焰，最后成了仲夏夜树林里应有的熊熊篝火。

She sacrificed her complexion floating on the river in the midsummer sun to study light and shade, and got a wrinkle over her nose trying after 'points of sight', or whatever the squint–and–string performance is called.

了揣摩光和影的效果，她顶着盛夏的阳光，泛舟河上，把皮肤都晒黑了；又了试图集中“视点”，就是眯眼睛来延伸成一线的那套动作，结果她的鼻子上也了皱纹。

Several cultures define their seasons exactly this way, and it might sound familiar from a certain William Shakespeare play where the summer solstice falls at “midsummer”.

确实有许多文化是用此法定义季，而这听来就像某部莎士比亚戏剧，夏至在“仲夏”出现。

It was ten o'clock at night, and it was broad daylight. In Norway the midsummer sun does not set, and the nights are like the days.

那是晚上十点钟，外面还是很亮，在挪威，仲夏的阳光不会落山，黑夜和白天一样。

Yeah, I think the first thing for some people to realise is that Christmas is midsummer in New Zealand.

我想一些人应该首先意识到圣值新西兰的盛夏时。

Northern European countries like Sweden and Finland celebrate the summer solstice by singing and dancing around the midsummer pole.

瑞典和芬兰等北欧国家围绕仲夏极点唱歌跳舞来庆祝夏至。

For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.

我很久没有见到乔丹·贝克，然后到了盛夏我又与她相遇。

It was a mild, serene, midsummer's night, -the sky was without a cloud, the winds were whist.

这是一个温暖宁静的仲夏之夜——天空没有一丝云彩，微风和煦。

Some monuments, like Stonehenge, were aligned with the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset.

有一些纪念碑，例如巨石阵，对齐了夏至日日出和冬至日日落的方向。

Hermia and Lysander try to elope in a midsummer night's dream, but it doesn't really work.

赫米娅和莱桑德在《仲夏夜之梦》中试图私奔，但并未成功。

Certain stones in the ancient circle line up with the midsummer sunrise and the winter solstice sunset, marking the longest and shortest days of the year.

在这个古老的圆圈中，一些特定的石头随着夏至的日出和冬至的日落，标记一年中最长和最短的日子。

So the year rolled round, and at midsummer there came to Meg a new experience, the deepest and tenderest of a woman's life.

一年就这么过去了，第二年盛夏时，一种新的体验降临到梅格身上——那是一个女人生命中最深刻、最温柔的体验。

After midsummer, 1914, the rule was made absolute.

1914 年仲夏之后， 这条规则就成了绝对的。

Since midsummer these discrepancies in Gloria's correspondence had grown more and more noticeable.

自仲夏以来， 格洛丽亚信件中的这些差异变得越来越明显。

When the Gadfly, strongly guarded, entered the room where Montanelli was writing at a table covered with papers, a sudden recollection came over him, of a hot midsummer afternoon when he had sat turning over manuscript sermons in a study much like this.

当牛虻在严密看守下进入蒙塔内利在桌前写作的房间时，他突然回忆一个酷热的仲夏午后，自己曾在一间类似的书房里翻阅手稿布道词的情景。

" I had nothing else to do, because it was the vacation, and I sat at them from morning till noon, and from noon till night: the length of the midsummer days favoured my inclination to apply" .

“值假期，我无事可做，便从早到晚坐在画前：仲夏白昼的悠长合我意，助我沉醉其中。”