严冬 (yán dōng) — severe winter; bitterly cold winter

Definition

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• 北方的严冬气温常常降到零下三十度。
  Běi fāng de yán dōng qì wēn cháng cháng jiàng dào líng xià sān shí dù.
  In the north, the temperature during severe winter often drops to minus thirty degrees.
• 那年严冬，许多动物因为找不到食物而死亡。
  Nà nián yán dōng, xǔ duō dòng wù yīn wèi zhǎo bú dào shí wù ér sǐ wáng.
  That severe winter, many animals died from not finding food.
• 严冬过后，春天终于来了。
  yán dōng Guò hòu, chūn tiān zhōng yú lái le.
  After the severe winter, spring finally came.