season creep
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈsiː.zən ˌkriːp]
- 美式音标 [ˈsiː.zən ˌkriːp]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- 季节蠕变（在一些国家，季节并不象过去一样明显或有规律地变化，这可能是全球变暖引起的）。
英汉例句
- On the environment, people keep an anxious eye on ''season creep'' - the observed changes in the timing of the seasons, especially earlier indications of spring.
在环境方面，人们对“季节蠕变”，即季节的交替更迭，特别是北半球春天提前到来的现象保持密切关注。
edu.sina.com.cn - Experts have started calling the shift in the times that plants bloom "season creep" and using decades of research have charted how much earlier it is happening。
专家学者们开始讲类似的植物提前现象称为“季节前移”，他们在分析了近几十年来的研究所得出的结果表明了这种情况的确正在发生。
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双语例句
英英字典
- the fact that in some countries seasons do not change as much or as regularly as they did in the past, thought to be caused by global warming (= the fact that the earth is becoming warmer)
- the gradual changing in the length of the seasons, as demonstrated by earlier flowering of plants, etc, thought by many to be caused by climate change