| 单词 | lamp of the night |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslamp(s) of the night a. singular. One of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, a star or meteor; also, a flash (of lightning). plural. The stars or heavenly bodies in general. Also lamp(s) of the night, lamp(s) of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > [noun] stareOE starnc1175 lamp1423 aster1603 spangle1605 fires of heaven1609 asterism1657 sunleta1854 1423 Kingis Quair lxxii Esperus his lampis gan to light. 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 329 The Sterne of glory is rissyn ws to gyd,..Abone Phebus, the radius lamp divrn. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso ix. lxix. 70 Straight like a lampe of lightning out it flies. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 17 Those lampes or torches make long traines. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 13 It is high time for me to descend from these measures of time; the lampes of the world. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 5 When they see Sun, we see the Lamps of night. 1792 J. Wolcot Wks. III. 198 Mild and placid as the light Shed by the Worm, the lamp of dewy night. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. ii. 129 Thus as he lay, the lamp of night Was quivering on his armour bright. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 37 Yon clear lamps That measure and divide the weary years. 1830 Hogg in Blackwood's Mag. 27 767 Lamps of glory begemm'd the sky. < as lemmas |
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