单词 | stardust |
释义 | star·dust (stärdŭst′) n. Idiom: 1. Charm or attractiveness that stems from celebrity and tends to forestall criticism: "The relative unknowns ... bring enough style [to the musical] to make up for any perceived lack of stardust" (Charles Isherwood). 2. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 3. a. Dust formed in very hot gasses ejected from stellar atmospheres or in supernova explosions. b. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. c. Minute particles of matter that fall to Earth from the stars. Not in scientific use. have stardust in (one's) eyes To be uncritically or unrealistically optimistic. |
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