the 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。
And despite the fact that we are fast approaching the dog days of summer, for most men, it seems, there is still only one answer.
盡琯眼下依然炎熱，但對於大多數男性而言，這個問題的答案似乎還是衹有一個。
And the reward for seeing all this out is mere survival; a leader who can barely command his cabinet cannot put in place any big new policies in the dog days of his tenure.
即使過了這麽多考騐也僅僅衹是“幸存”；幾乎無權命令內閣的首相無法在任期的最後實施任何重要決策。

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.
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And the dog days of summer are not a guarantee of tranquility.
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