| 单词 | star-mirroring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstar-mirroring That reflects in the manner of a mirror. Also figurative, and as the second element in compounds, as sky-mirroring, star-mirroring, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [adjective] > as in a mirror reflective1624 mirroring1837 1837 M. Shelley Falkner III. iv. 55 The moon was hurrying on among the clouds..and the mirroring ocean was sometimes alive with sparkling silver. 1838 Southern Lit. Messenger Sept. 604/1 Its sky-mirroring waters moved along the thick grass or rippled among the pebbles on its shore. 1846 Amer. Whig Rev. Sept. 304 As still as our star-mirroring lakes. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 18 Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring Soul. 1919 W. de la Mare Flora 33 On the mirroring sands Bell-shrill the oyster-catchers. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xix. 440 In the mirroring faces of whatever children they will contemplate old disasters and newer hopes. 1992 New Yorker 28 Sept. 82/3 It could easily have collapsed in performance into fine splinters had it not been for the supporting, mirroring interest of ‘The Nutcracker’. < as lemmas |
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