| 释义 |
Valˈkyrian, a.
Also Valkyriean.
[f. next.]
Of or concerning the Valkyries.
1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 121 Ourself have often tried Valkyrian hymns. 1937J. W. Day Sporting Adv. 250 They came baying, like Valkyriean hounds, the skeins of brent. 1938― Dog in Sport xix. 266 On the hillside, far beyond the wood..he lifted like a Valkyrian shadow against the clear horizon of a mountainside that had seen his kind since the birth of history. 1977D. Williams Treasure by Degrees iii. 31 She opened her arms wide..in a Valkyrian gesture. 1981J. M. Brinnin Beau Voyage (1982) 173/2 German ships..would become..galleries of an aspiration so Valkyrian that one would think only megalomaniacs might dally there. |