转眼夏日已经到了收尾的日子，农谚有“早晨立了秋，晚上凉飕飕”，“立秋一日，水冷三分”之说，怎么用英语表达立秋这个节气呢？

立秋是中国传统二十四节气中的第十三个节气，标志着夏日的结束和秋天的到来。所以立秋的英文表达为Start of Autumn.

尽管立秋的到来预示着凉爽秋日的开始，但酷热的天气并未完全结束，“秋老虎”的威力不容小觑！

1. 立秋的气候特征

立秋三候

First pentad 初候：凉风至

Cool wind comes

Second pentad 次候：白露降

White dew falls

Last pentad 末候：寒蝉鸣

Cold cicadas chirp

秋老虎

The period of hot days after Start of Autumn, usually lasting for 30 days, is called "Autumn Tiger" or "Indian Summer". Because of the decreasing precipitation, it is even more sweltering during this period than during Major Heat.

立秋之后的高温天气通常会持续30天左右，这就是人们所说的“秋老虎”。由于降雨量减少，这段时间甚至比大暑时更加闷热。

Autumn Tiger：秋老虎

sweltering：闷热的

秋收

Start of Autumn is a big solar term for farmers. It is time to gather crops. There is a saying: "If it rains on the day of Start of Autumn, a good harvest is expected."

对于农民来说，立秋是一个非常重要的节气——收庄稼的时候到了！有句谚语说得好“立秋下雨万物收”，即是说立秋如果下雨就会有好收成。

一叶知秋

When it comes to this season, the leaves of the phoenix tree start to fall, thus there is a saying of "One leaf falls, autumn arrives." When the sun reaches the celestial longitude of 135 degrees, summer is passing away and the weather turns cold gradually. People can feel the wind getting cool and see fogs in the morning sometimes.

每到这个季节，梧桐树开始落叶，由此得来一种说法“一叶知秋”。当太阳直射点到达天文经度135°时，夏天就过去了，天气也逐渐转冷。人们可以感觉到风渐冷，时而早上会见到雾。

2. 立秋的节气习俗

贴秋膘

On the day of Start of Autumn, usually people will weigh themselves and compare their weight to what it was on the day of Start of Summer. If one has lost weight during summer, then at the beginning of autumn, he or she needs to flesh out by eating many different kinds of delicious food, especially meat.

在立秋第一天，人们通常会称自己的体重，和立夏时的体重作比较。如果在夏天体重下降了，那么秋天开始的时候，人们就会吃许多美味的食物来进补，特别是肉食。

咬秋

In Shandong province, people make dumplings on the day of Start of Autumn, and they call it "Eating the Autumn". On that day, senior members of the family will stand in the middle of the hall, worshiping a bowl of cereal, and praying for the harvest in autumn. Most of the families will eat dumplings together after Start of Autumn.

在山东，人们会在立秋包饺子吃，这被称为“咬秋”。在立秋那天，家里的老人会站在屋子中间，守着一碗麦片粥，祈求秋天丰收。立秋过后，大多数家庭都会在一起吃饺子。

3. 怎样形容秋天？

英语句子

1. Wake up to drink, people feel the middle of the night, moving wind over a lotus leaf pond.

夜半酒醒人不觉，满池荷叶动秋风。

2. Colors burst from the trees like splattered paint.

层林尽染，如泼洒的颜料般浓墨重彩。

3. Do not know when, you fall softly on my red sweater, you put a flower as I have it.

不知什么时候，你轻轻地落在我鲜红的毛衣上，你把我也当成一朵花了吗。

4. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

秋天是另一个春天，秋天的每一片叶子都是一朵小花。

5. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

寒冬是刻版画、春季是水彩、盛夏是油画，而秋日则是集结了他们的马赛克。

6. I see the turning of a leaf dancing in an autumn sun, and brilliant shades of crimson glowing when a day is done.

我看见飘落的叶子在阳光下起舞，在日落时转红。

7. Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

秋天的口袋里，比其他季节收藏着更多金黄色。

8. I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

在多雾的清晨里，我看见晚秋沉默地站着，聆听着沉默。

英语诗词

秋   词

刘禹锡

自古逢秋悲寂寥，我言秋日胜春朝。

晴空一鹤排云上，便引诗情到碧霄。

Song of Autumn

By Liu Yuxi (许渊冲译）

Since olden days we feel in autumn sad and drear;

But I say spring cannot compete with autumn clear.

On a fine day a crane cleaves the clouds and soars high;

It leads the poet's lofty mind to azure sky.