| 单词 | lightning-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈlightning-like ˈlightning-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of lightning; esp. very quickly or suddenly (cf. like lightning at Phrases 2); (b) adj. resembling or reminiscent of lightning; very quick or sudden. ΚΠ 1595 tr. G. de S. Du Bartas First Day of Worldes Creation 8 Who can sustaine the daunting lookes of him, That lightning-like disperseth life and lim? 1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. B1v A Race..after the Roman fashion:..in their thundring velocity, lightning-like violence, and earth-quaking, whorrying. 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 8 The dim words which obscure thee now Flash, lightning-like, with unaccustomed glow. 1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 June 11/1 Some half-dozen wrapper-writers,..each..copying with lightning-like rapidity from a directory page before him. 1981 K. Stein in O. Davies Omni Bk. of Paranormal & Mind vi. xxix. 329 Electrical-wave surges that move, lightninglike, across the brain in minute fractions of a second. 2021 Logistics Managem. Mar. 20/1 The rapid rise of e-commerce, coupled with the lightning-like spread of COVID-19 is certainly not breaking news. < as lemmas |
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