| 单词 | midsummer night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidsummer night midsummer night n. ΚΠ c1375 (?c1280) Birth Jesus (Egerton) 641 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 93 Þe schorteste niȝt þat was þo was missomerniȝt. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Munus,..Munera, commune playes and gaye sightes for the peple to behold, to reioice them,..now in the citie of London, the watches & syghtes on midsomer nightes. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 95 If it had not bin for a hot Midsomer-night . View more context for this quotation 1889 W. Allingham Life & Phantasy 51 Like watching stars that lie soft and bright In the violet depths of the midsummer night. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) v. 151 To compensate for all this the splendour of coming midsummer nights flashed from her deep-brown eyes. 1924 E. Lloyd-Williams in J. Aaron View across Valley (1999) viii. 90 Is it my fault..if I was born of a Midsummer Night with the moon at the full? 1986 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 58 927 He joined with his people in celebrating the Christianized version of the pagan midsummer night's eve. < as lemmas |
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