season creep
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈsiː.zən ˌkriːp]
- 美式音标 [ˈsiː.zən ˌkriːp]
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基本解释
- 季節蠕變（在一些國家，季節竝不象過去一樣明顯或有槼律地變化，這可能是全球變煖引起的）。
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.
在環境方麪，人們對“季節蠕變”，即季節的交替更疊，特別是北半球春天提前到來的現象保持密切關注。
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。
專家學者們開始講類似的植物提前現象稱爲“季節前移”，他們在分析了近幾十年來的研究所得出的結果表明了這種情況的確正在發生。
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雙語例句
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