单词 | on, upon the wane |
释义 | > as lemmason, upon the wane a. The waning, or gradual decrease of the visible illuminated area on the moon. Now rare except in phrases, on, upon the wane, in (the, her, its) wane. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [phrase] > falling off on, upon the wane1548 on the decline1892 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > waning moon > action of olda1225 wane1548 decrement1610 decrease1626 waddle1678 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Seneo Luna senescens, the moone whan it is in the wane. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. v. sig. D.vv The decreasyng or wane of the Moone. 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile sig. E6v The siluer Moone,..That with the floods fills vp her horned head, And by her waine the wayning ebbs doth keepe. 1608 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto Satyres iii. 41 They easly migh espie..How she [sc. the moon] grew in the full, how in the waine. 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii. E 4 When the Moone, by which the Seas are gouern'd, Retir'd his waters by her powerfull wane. 1720 J. Swift Progr. Beauty in Poems 72 Each Night, a Bit drops off her Face, When Mortals say she's in her Wane. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 352 When the pale Empress of yon' starry train In the next month renews her faded wane. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 11 She, like a moon in wane, Faded before him. 1838 W. Wordsworth 'Tis He in Sonn. 8 Yon Moon Doubly depressed, setting, and in her wane. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vii. 107 The old moon began to sink, (Long, like her, upon the wane). < as lemmas |
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