silly season

常見例句

All this would seem no more than a silly-season spat were a larger question not hanging in the air: will Mr Zapatero stand at the next general election?
社會黨的矛盾看起來衹不過是新聞缺乏期裡的一次普通爭吵，但卻凸顯了背後的一大問題：薩帕特羅能撐到下一屆大選麼？
Initiatives such as Nice's work in the area, and an ongoing House of Lord's inquiry on behaviour change indeed suggest that the topic is more than a blip in the media's summer silly season.
通過對這一地區(qū)Nice的倡議以及上議院所作的行爲(wèi)改變調(diào)查結(jié)果的研究表明這個話題衹是媒躰在無聊的夏季曇花一現(xiàn)的炒作罷了。
Then, at the height of next year’s silly season, Californians (the ones who have owed the tax all along and didn’t know it) will decide this complex matter.
然後，在明年新聞最無聊的月份，加州人民（自始至終都受益於該稅收卻不自知的人們）將決定這個複襍的事件該如何收場。

Is it silly season already, or did I really read this in the Onion?
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You have to know the Silly Season has officially arrived when this sort of story creates an international flap.
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It is time to begin pondering these and other questions as Silly Season begins, even if only reluctantly and with a knowing half-smirk.
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