When midwinter arrives, vital movement begins to decline and calm down.

当冬至来临，生命活动会开始减少并平寂下来。

One large European company sent executives to the Arctic Circle in midwinter.

一家欧洲大型公司在隆冬时节将高管送往北极圈。

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。

In Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, people call midwinter the " Ghost Festival" .

在宁夏银川，大家称冬至为“鬼节”。

When midwinter comes, vital movement begins to decline and calm down.

冬至来临后，人们开始减少活动。

People in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, are accustomed to eating wontons in midwinter.

江苏苏州的人们习惯在冬至吃馄饨。

They give the midwinter soup a strange name: " brain" and share it with their neighbors.

粉做好后还要给邻居端上一碗。

Cattle and other animals were slaughtered around midwinter, followed by feasting on what was the last fresh meat for several months.

冬至时节古人会杀牲口和其他动物，然后在接下来几个月尽情享用最后的鲜。

By midwinter, the snow is so deep that bobcats are forced to leave their territories to try and find easier hunting.

深冬时节积雪实在太深，山猫被迫离开他们的领寻找更易于捕捉的猎物。

This was midwinter, in the Highlands of Scotland, and many others perished and died in the cold.

这是苏格兰高的仲冬，许多人在寒冷中丧生。

" I've come up for the midwinter prom at New Haven, " she announced, imparting her delightful secret.

“我来参加纽黑文的仲冬舞会，”她宣布，并透露了她令人愉快的秘密。

It often starts in October, hits its peak in midwinter and can stick around as late as May.

它通常在 10 月开始， 在仲冬达到顶峰， 并可能持续到 5 月。

The poinsettias, as trusting as we, have reached their full brilliant bloom by midwinter and stand with proud heads to be struck down.

一品红，和我们一样信任， 在隆冬时节盛开， 骄傲站着等待被击倒。

During the winter, it is dark for longer and longer each day, until midwinter, when there are some days that the sun does not rise at all.

在冬天，黑夜一天比一天长，直到冬至，甚至还有几天太阳根本不会升起。

The season was midwinter, January 10, 1842, and he never forgot his acute distress for want of air under his blankets, or the noises of moving furniture.

1842 年 1 月 10 日正值隆冬，他从未忘记自己因为毯下缺气或家具移动的声音而极度痛苦。

According to legend, during the midwinter feast 2,500 years ago, the King of Wu was disgusted with all kinds of costly foods and wanted to eat something different.

根据历史传说，在2500年前的冬至时节，吴国国王厌倦了所有的昂贵美食，想吃些特别的口味。

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.

因为轴是倾斜的，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。

A morning of midwinter, roofs and ways covered with soot-grimed snow under the ghastly fog-pall; and, whilst I lay there in my bed, that woman had been led out and hanged — hanged.

可怕的雾气笼罩着屋顶和道路， 上面覆盖着烟灰般的积雪； 就在我躺在床上的时候， 那个女人被带出去绞死了——绞死了。

One day, in midwinter, he talked to his men. 'Let's start early, before Scott, ' Amundsen said. 'Remember, Scott has more men than us, and he has motor sledges, too. Perhaps they can go faster than us.'

隆冬里的一天，他对众人说：“我们早些走，赶在斯科特之前。”阿蒙森说，“别忘了，斯科特的人比我们多，他还有机动雪橇。所以，他们可能比我们快 。”

Minister Adams remembered how his grandfather had sailed from Mount Wollaston in midwinter, 1778, on the little frigate Boston, taking his eleven-year-old son John Quincy with him, for secretary, on a diplomacy of adventure that had hardly a parallel for success.

亚当斯部长记得他的祖父是如何在 1778 年仲冬从沃拉斯顿山出发，带着他 11 岁的儿约翰昆西担任秘书的小护卫舰波士顿，进行了一次几乎没有成功的冒险外交.