| 单词 | at noonday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (†the) noonday b. at (†the) noonday: in the middle of the day. Cf. noondays n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adverb] a-noonc1410 at noondays1531 at (the) noonday1535 noontimes1915 1535 [see sense A. 1a]. 1651 H. L'Estrange Answer Marques of Worcester's Paper 12 [That] we must not walk abroad at high noon-day without a Torch. 1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband iv. i. 47 What the devil, swords at noonday? 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 451 Judgment drunk,..Winks hard, and talks of darkness at noon-day. 1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 141 Prisons in..which he could not see his hand at noonday. 1883 G. H. Boker Plays & Poems I. iii. i. 281 If plain, blunt sense could compass my designs, I'd go to bed at noonday. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 771/1 Gigantic mangoes casting a shade so dense that there is darkness at noonday under their low-hanging branches. 1991 H. Davies Shanghai Owner of Bonsai Shop 23 We hide in the treetrunks at noonday. < as lemmas |
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