| 释义 |
sunlike, a. and adv.|ˈsʌnlaɪk|
[f. sun n.1 + -like.]
A. adj. Like or resembling the sun, or that of the sun; esp. very bright or resplendent.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 79 No extraordinarie Gaze, Such as is bent on Sunne-like Maiestie. c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 273 His shield cast a Sun-like radiance. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. liii, Double Sunlike motion. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. i. 27 These Sun-like Bodies in the Centers of the several Vortices. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. lxiv, And she saw princes couched under the glow Of sunlike gems. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. vii. 260 If the light of an electric lamp be caused to form a clear sunlike disk upon a white screen. 1873Proctor Expanse of Heaven 156 That these giant planets are still in the active and sun⁓like state necessary..for the expulsion of comets.
B. adv. Like or in the manner of the sun.
1819Shelley Cenci v. iii. 32 That eternal honour which should live Sunlike, above the reek of mortal fame. 1832–5Willis From the Apennines 15 Sun-like thou hast power to give Life to the earth. |