寒来暑往 meaning in English
cold and heat succeed each other. - - as time passes; as summer goes and winter comes; as the years roll on [go by]; change of seasons; lapse of time; the cold comes and the heat departs.; the interchange of summer and winter; the vicissitudes [alteration] of the seasons; with the passage of time; year in and year out
Examples
- As summer goes and winter comes , time flows like water
寒来暑往几时休,光阴逐水流。 - For an agricultural economy like china , it was of vital importance that the people to be told of the beginning and end of the rainy seasons , or the rise and the fall of the rivers
中国以农立国，寒来暑往，秋收冬藏，从远古便一直掌握著人民生活的节奏。曾几何时，我们远古的祖先，发现天上星象的变化，似乎和季节的交替，有著某种神秘的联系。