"When the bottom of the mountain is summer, the top is spring and while the foothill is autumn, the top is covered with ice," local people say of the special climate of Shennongjia.

当地的人们这样形容神农架的特殊气候：“山脚下是夏天，山顶是春天，山脚下是秋天，山顶被冰雪覆盖。”

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Summer hours were long, winter ones short; only at the spring and autumn equinoxes were the hours of daylight and darkness equal.

夏天的时间长，冬天的时间短；只有在春秋分点，白天和黑夜的时间才相等。

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It can be pretty tiring though, and it means you're out of the office a lot in the autumn and the spring, so we try to share the work between the three of us.

不过这确实很累，它意味着你春天和秋天的大多数时间都不在办公室工作。因此，我们尽量三个人一起分担工作。

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Imagine us as Australians, though, and the hyperborean blast must mean a heatwave scorching over from Java's scented isle, just as (though neither actually happens) Father Christmas should arrive half-clad on waterskis, and Easter should recall, to anthropologists, not the Adonis festival and the rebirth of spring but some autumn feast that has lost its way, or why not?

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Summer is peak tourist season, but planning a wine tour in the spring and autumn means avoiding the crowds and observing either the first leaves and shoots or witnessing the harvest, with grapes hanging ripe and heavy on the vine.

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Men who are horse- and mule-packers during the spring, summer and early autumn have little or no employment in the off-season.

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