单词 | sky-piercing |
释义 | > as lemmassky-piercing b. With present participles, as sky-piercing, sky-reaching, sky-touching, etc. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 22 The sky-perfuming prayers, & profuse sacrificatory expences of ful-hand oblationers. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. x. sig. Hh4 They are the daughters of sky-ruling Ioue. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 127 + 2 Skie-aspiring and ambitious thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. G2 Skie measuring Mathematicians. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ix. 135 Mighty Raran shooke his proud sky-kissing top. 1633 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 160 Nero's sky-resembling gold-seel'd Halls. 1788 P. M. Freneau Misc. Wks. 31 When thou, sky-pointing Saba, Shall tremble on thy base most fearfully! 1796 E. Hamilton Transl. Lett. Hindoo Rajah II. 120 Whose trees have their sky-touching heads overshadowed by the venerable mountains. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iii. 78 The keen sky-cleaving mountains. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 204 Amid skyrending vivats, and blessings from every heart. 1887 Times 29 Aug. 4/4 Endless sky-reaching spires. 1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 9 Void are the valleys.., And dumb the sky-dividing hills. 1957 L. MacNeice Visitations 42 Felt suddenly harassed, a sky-splitting headache with nothing to cause it. 1977 New Scientist 24 Feb. 478/1 A spiky, sky-piercing crenellation of buildings running down the Royal Mile. 2004 Archit. Rev. June 47/2 Between the sleek, sky-striving towers of downtown and a sunken motorway. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。