dog days

常见例句

THE bombshell burst this week, in the dog days of summer, when fewer Japanese were likely to be bothered.
三伏之夏，在沒有任何一個日本人願意被打擾的日子裡，本周卻發生了一件令人震驚的事件。
Which brings up a common question: If the summer solstice is the longest day of the year, why are the dog days of August typically hotter?
這裡要提一個共同的問題：如果夏至是一年之中白天最長的一天，爲什麽8月份的三伏天通常會更熱一些？
With the arrival of the dog days, air conditioners become the hot cake in electric home appliances stores, and many firms attract customers by lowering the prices one after another.
三伏天到來，空調成了家電賣場的熱賣産品，很多商家紛紛推出降價活動吸引顧客。

The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year.
So you watch the dog die over days or weeks.
然後看著狗在幾天甚至幾周裡慢慢死去。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選

This year, the dog days of summer proved to be more greyhound than basset hound.
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It's not quite the dog days of summer yet, but we do have a canine question this week for our ethicist, Randy Cohen.
NPR: The Ethicist: Weighing a Canine Conundrum
And the dog days of summer are not a guarantee of tranquility.
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