| 单词 | daylight raid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdaylight raid b. With the sense ‘happening in daylight, done during daylight hours’ (as opposed to the night), as daylight attack, daylight raid, daylight sleep, etc.Recorded earliest in daylight robbery n. ΚΠ 1804 Monthly Rev. Sept. 2 No one indeed can view its [sc. France's] large and day-light robberies, or its foul and mid-night murders, without abhorrence. 1822 Manch. Iris 21 Sept. 271/1 Each cowslip cradled a spirit, that, at the sound of the curfew-bell, would start from her daylight sleep. 1853 Standard 25 Jan. 3/4 At midnight the three parties concentrated and moved into position for a daylight attack. 1865 New Haven (Connecticut) Daily Palladium 2/1 The Leader..asserts that they are even planning daylight raids upon the banks there. 1912 C. McEvoy Brass Faces (1913) iv. 47 He stared dully at the huge headlines that were spread across the width of three columns..: ‘Astounding daylight abduction. Unwilling girl forced out of a Pimlico house.’ 1945 Flying Mag. Sept. 104/3 American daylight bombing had drawn out the vastly greater part of the Luftwaffe's defensive weight. 1985 R. Tremain Swimming Pool Season ii. 126 A night nurse, her eyes puffy with daylight sleeping, comes in. 2014 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 30 Jan. 17 Her killer used an antique double-barrelled shotgun in the daylight attack. < as lemmas |
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