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hibernate in/at/under [place]
hibernate 是不及物动词，不能直接接宾语，需要借助介词引出地点或时间。
Bears hibernate in caves during the winter.
熊在冬天会在洞穴里冬眠。
冬眠
hibernates — third person singular of hibernate
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
冬眠
sleep during winter
Bears hibernate in caves during the winter.
熊在冬天会在洞穴里冬眠。
多指动物
以休眠或非活跃状态度过冬季,活动极少,体温、呼吸和心率降低,代谢率低。
To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
隐居。
To live in seclusion.
进入待机状态,节省电量而不丢失内存内容。
To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
hibernate
Base
原形
hibernates
3rd person
第三人称单数
hibernating
-ing
现在分词
hibernated
Past
过去式
hibernated
Past participle
过去分词
Many bears hibernate in winter.
许多熊在冬天冬眠。
The snake hibernated under the rocks last winter.
这条蛇去年冬天在岩石下冬眠。
The groundhog is hibernating in its burrow now.
土拨鼠现在正在地洞里冬眠。
hibernate 是不及物动词，主语通常为动物，表示冬眠或蛰伏。
Bears hibernate in their dens during the winter.
熊在冬天会在自己的洞穴里冬眠。
My laptop hibernates when the battery is almost empty.
我的笔记本电脑在电池快没电时进入休眠状态。
Some frogs hibernate at the bottom of frozen ponds.
有些青蛙在结冰的池塘底部冬眠。
hibernate 是不及物动词，不能直接接宾语，需要借助介词引出地点或时间。
Bears hibernate in caves during the winter.
熊在冬天会在洞穴里冬眠。
through 后接一段时期，强调整个时期都处于冬眠状态。
Some frogs hibernate through the cold winter months.
有些青蛙在寒冷的冬季月份里冬眠。
for 后接时间段，说明冬眠持续的时间长度。
The chipmunk hibernates for about five months.
金花鼠冬眠大约五个月。
Not this
The bear goes into hibernate in winter.
Use this
The bear goes into hibernation in winter.
go into 后应接名词，hibernate 是动词，应改用其名词形式 hibernation；汉语中‘冬眠’没有词性变化，容易把动词当名词用。
Not this
A bear hibernate in winter.
Use this
A bear hibernates in winter.
主语 a bear 是第三人称单数，一般现在时谓语动词要加 -s；汉语动词没有人称和数的变化，所以学习者容易漏掉这个 -s。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
在冬天冬眠
Many animals hibernate in winter to escape the cold.
许多动物在冬天冬眠以躲避寒冷。
整个冬天冬眠
These frogs hibernate through the winter at the bottom of the pond.
这些青蛙在池塘底部整个冬天冬眠。
冬眠到春天
The bear hibernates until spring in its den.
这只熊在洞穴里冬眠到春天。
在洞穴里冬眠
A mother bear may hibernate in a den with her cubs.
母熊可能会和幼崽在洞穴里冬眠。
冬眠数月
Some animals hibernate for months without eating.
有些动物冬眠数月不吃东西。
Use hibernates naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
hibernate（冬眠）：想象冬天熊说声“hi”就钻进树洞睡大觉，直到春天才出来——记住“熊冬眠”的画面即可。
语域：neutral 常见场景：动物冬眠的生物学语境、计算机或电子设备休眠、较正式的书面表达 hibernate 通常用于描述动物冬眠或设备进入休眠状态，多出现在科技、生物等比较正式的书面语境；日常口语中较少使用。用于比喻“蛰伏、隐退”时也偏正式。
Words ending in -ate can be tricky: hibernate ends with /eɪt/, like late, relate, and translate (but these do not rhyme with the whole word because hibernate has primary stress on the first syllable). Be careful with lookalikes: private, climate, and chocolate end in -ate but have a reduced vowel (/ɪt/, /ət/, or /lət/).
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, OCTANOVE, WIKTIONARY.