英语词汇“black rain”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

black rain n. (in singular and plural) rain that is exceptionally dark, dense, or dirty; (figurative) the radioactive rain that followed the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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1772 Crit. Rev. June 428 The vapours, fogs, and rains with which the atmosphere of London is loaded, drag with them in their fall the heaviest particles of the smoke: this forms black rains.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to West Wind ii, in Prometheus Unbound 190 From whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst.

1867 Sailors' Mag. & Seamen's Friend Feb. 164/2 In Scotland, these black rains have been frequently noticed.

1946 (title of film) White light black rain. [With reference to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]

1979 P. White Let. 4 Mar. (1994) xiv. 518 We are going through awful days of humidity, and now two whole days of black rain as the result of a cyclone up north.

1991 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 7/3 Newspaper and television reports depict clouds so dense that car headlights must be turned on at midday and ‘black rain’ that coats crops, water supplies and all else with soot.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Aug. d2/2 The day after the A-bomb, my father went into Hiroshima to search for his mother and siblings. My father was exposed to the radioactive ‘black rain’.

单词	black rain
释义	> as lemmas black rain black rain n. (in singular and plural) rain that is exceptionally dark, dense, or dirty; (figurative) the radioactive rain that followed the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. ΚΠ 1772 Crit. Rev. June 428 The vapours, fogs, and rains with which the atmosphere of London is loaded, drag with them in their fall the heaviest particles of the smoke: this forms black rains. 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to West Wind ii, in Prometheus Unbound 190 From whose solid atmosphere Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst. 1867 Sailors' Mag. & Seamen's Friend Feb. 164/2 In Scotland, these black rains have been frequently noticed. 1946 (title of film) White light black rain. [With reference to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.] 1979 P. White Let. 4 Mar. (1994) xiv. 518 We are going through awful days of humidity, and now two whole days of black rain as the result of a cyclone up north. 1991 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 7/3 Newspaper and television reports depict clouds so dense that car headlights must be turned on at midday and ‘black rain’ that coats crops, water supplies and all else with soot. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Aug. d2/2 The day after the A-bomb, my father went into Hiroshima to search for his mother and siblings. My father was exposed to the radioactive ‘black rain’. extracted from blackadj.n. < as lemmas
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