| 单词 | artificial day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartificial day artificial day n. [after post-classical Latin dies artificialis (from 11th cent. in British sources); compare Middle French, French jour artificiel (1362; compare Anglo-Norman jour artificiel period of 24 hours (late 13th cent. or earlier)), Old Occitan artificial dia (c1350)] the period during which the sun is above the horizon, as distinguished from the period in which the earth turns once on its axis (cf. natural day n. at natural adj. and adv. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] day tideOE dayOE daytimeOE daylightOE artificial daya1398 open day?a1430 lightmans1567 open daylight?1585 morning1749 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 125v Artificial day is þe space in þe whiche þe sonne passiþ aboute in oure siȝt fro þe est to þe west. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 2 The brighte sonne The ark of his artificial day hath ronne The ferthe part. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 377 (MED) The clergy..ȝiffenge attendaunce to preier and to abstinence by the day artificialle, spendenge the nyȝhtes in surfettes and in ryette. 1581 T. Rogers tr. N. Hemmingsen Faith of Church Militant v. 48 The time wherein the sunne is ouer our Horizon, which the Astronomers cal an artificial daie. 1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 142 To take the fourth commandement to bee understood of an artificiall day and not of a naturall. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §9. 232 The Cosmical rising and setting is all one with the Morning rising or setting, as if the beginning of the Artificial Day, or the Rising of the Sun, were the same with that of the World. 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 569/2 The division of the artificial day, or time from sunrise to sunset, into twelve equal parts, belongs to the remotest ages of antiquity. 1928 Geogr. Rev. 18 696 Experiments..indicate that a lengthening of the artificial day by electric lights, during the season when the solar day is shortening, has a direct and measurable effect upon the development of birds' gonads. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time i. 4 Jesus, in St John's Gospel, asks ‘Are there not twelve hours in the day?’, meaning the artificial day. < as lemmas |
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