| 单词 | atom-race |
| 释义 | > as lemmasatom-race a. General attributive and appositive (chiefly poetic), as atom-ball, atom-dance, atom-race, atom-world, etc. ΚΠ 1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. x His Ideall, And Centrall presence is in every Atom-ball. 1686 H. Grenfield God in Creature iii. 30 The world in a blind Atom-dance, Stumbled into its beauteous form by chance. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 25 And shall an Atom of this Atom-World, Mutter in Dust, and Sin, the Theme of Heaven? 1813 L. Hunt in Examiner 15 Feb. 104/1 The swarm Of atom bees. 1835 R. Manley Poet. Remains 4 Yet wisdom's searching eye delights to trace God's skill and pow'r e'en in this atom race. 1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 165 You saw the final atom-dance. a1887 S. Cruikshanks in A. Wilmot Poetry South Afr. (1887) 177 This world of sin, This atom earth. 1907 J. A. Spender Comments of Bagshot viii. 63 A multitude of planetary systems..reproducing the pageant of night and morning..on millions of atom-planets. 1999 D. Mahon Coll. Poems 248 Genes perform their atom-dance of mad mutation. < as lemmas |
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