单词 | empire of the rising sun |
释义 | > as lemmasEmpire of the Rising Sun Empire of the Rising Sun n. (a name given to) Japan. Now somewhat archaic. [Compare earlier land (also country, island, kingdom, etc.) of the rising sun at rising sun n. Phrases and rising sun n. 4a. Compare Japanese Dai Nippon Teikoku , lit. ‘Great Empire of Japan’ or ‘Empire of Great Japan’ (1889; official name of the country 1890–1945), based on the earlier name Nippon-koku , lit. ‘land of the origin of the sun’ (see Nippon n.).] ΚΠ 1860 N.Y. Times 5 May 1/4 Even in this locality of excitements, the population is on tiptoe of expectation, in view of the coming delegation from the Empire of the Rising Sun. 1890 Morning Post 26 July 5/2 The writer..devotes some interesting pages to an account of a visit to the Japanese inland watering-place Kusatsu, renowned throughout the Empire of the Rising Sun for the medicinal virtues of its hot springs. 1936 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 1 455 Social thought in the broadest sense has never been lacking in the Empire of the Rising Sun. 1991 V. Bugliosi Sea will Tell ii. 28 A five-inch-gun battery on the island chased off the would-be raider. After that, the Empire of the Rising Sun expressed no interest in the isolated atoll. 2011 C. Shirley December 1941 (2013) i. 17 The accepted wisdom was that..if things turned bad for Hitler on the Russian front, the Empire of the Rising Sun would shrink from any military against the British or the Free French in the Far East. < as lemmas |
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