Indian summer 是什么意思?

Indian summer 是什么意思?
Indian summer 是什么意思?

Indian summer 是什么意思?
深秋季节的一段暖和天气
这个词组还真是非常少见的“Indian Summer”这个哪个英语口语学习网站啊?,这个蹊跷的词组都有.只有我外教和我说过这个词组,他说外国很少用这个词组.
"秋老虎"、"小阳春",都是中文里特殊的表达方式,那么如何用英文来表达"深秋季节的一段暖和天气"呢?其实英文中有个与之相对应的短语,那就是"India Summer"了.
"Indian Summer"指秋天的一段暖和、干燥的天气,往往出现在9月下旬、10月和11月,有时候也会出现在8月或12月,爱伦-坡曾把它称作 "strange interregnum occurring in autumn" .
"Indian Summer"中的"Indian"绝对不是指印度,而是指美洲的土著民族印第安人,因为这样的天气出现在美国东海岸中部各州,北到新英格兰,西至大平原.这种天气往往伴随着灾难性的大雾.
"Indian Summer"首次出现在1778年一位法国籍美国人的书中,他在描写殖民地的农场中写道,"Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares [the earth] to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness,called the Indian Summer."

字面意思：印度夏季

Indian summer
n.
1. 深秋初冬季节风和日丽的宜人气候,小阳春,兴旺的晚期
1. 愉快宁静的晚年

来自wiki百科全书的解释：An Indian summer is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs in the autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere. It refers to a period of considerably above normal temperatures, accompanied by dry...

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来自wiki百科全书的解释：An Indian summer is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs in the autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere. It refers to a period of considerably above normal temperatures, accompanied by dry and hazy conditions, after there has been a killing frost.
其实楼上的解释，小阳春，是正解，就是气候温和，有点干燥，常出现在严霜之后。
以下是wiki更多的解释，
The modern use of the term is when the weather is sunny and clear, and above 21 °C (70 °F), after there has been a sharp frost; a period normally associated with late-October to mid-November.[1]
In some regions of the south-eastern United States, 'Indian summer' is colloquially used to describe the hottest times of the year, typically in late July or August. But in the South, as elsewhere in the US, this period is more commonly known as the dog days, in reference to the position of Sirius, the 'Dog Star' and brightest star in the sky other than the sun. In the desert south-western United States, where frost is rare, the term is sometimes used to refer to a brief period of hot dry weather which occurs after the hottest months and before the onset of winter rains, typically in October or November. It may also be used to refer to any unseasonably warm weather during the first few weeks of the rainy season, before the approach of spring.
The term 'Indian summer' is also used metaphorically to refer to a late blooming of something, often unexpectedly, or after it has lost relevance. This is comparable to the use of the term renaissance in the sense of 'revival', but it carries the added connotation that the revival is temporary. A famous use of the phrase in American literature is Van Wyck Brooks' New England: Indian Summer, a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flowering of New England

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