| 单词 | summer's night |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer's night C2. With the first element in the genitive (summer's). Now chiefly designating parts of the day or night, as summer's morning, summer's evening, summer's night, etc.See also summer's day n., summer's tide n. ΚΠ OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 9 May (2013) 102 On ðone nygeþan dæg ðæs monðes bið sumeres fruma. a1400 MS Merton 248 in Anglia (1974) 92 59 (MED) All þe worschipe þou hast of cunde, as someres flour it will a-swynde, and passen out of siȝt. a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 821 As the someres sonne bryght. c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) sig. Miii And so lasted that cruel fyght, Al that longe somers nyght. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. vii. 109 In the symmeris drouth, Quhen wyndis risis of the north or south. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda i. v. 64 The humming of a gnat in Summers night. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 205 Ditties highly pend, Sung by a faire Queene in a summers bowre. View more context for this quotation 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. xxiii. 136 Diseases, neuer perceiued in their Summers growth, vntill they be ripe of death in the Autumne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 170 'Twas on a Summers Euening. View more context for this quotation 1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 22 The Sodomites..shall have a Summers parlour in hell over that soule. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 43 The..sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose. View more context for this quotation 1720 A. Ramsay Keitha in Poems 311 Her Presence, like a Simmer's Morning Ray. 1782 W. Cowper tr. V. Bourne Cricket in W. Cowper Poems 340 Theirs is but a summer's song, Thine endures the winter long. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) i. 9 Ae Simmer's morning. 1855 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. I. iii. 112 If the right rhombic crystals [of sulphate of nickel] be placed in the summer's sun for a few days they become opaque. 1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue v. 101 Particularly grotesque Chinese lanterns seen across the lawn of a summer's night may appear arresting and audacious. 1988 Shoal Lake (Manitoba) Star 25 May 5/1 Nothing's worse than waking up on a summer's morning all grouchy and ill-tempered because you couldn't sleep..on account of another simmering prairie heatwave. 2013 New Yorker 24 June 16/3 To be in the light-filled dining room on a balmy summer's evening is an exercise in pure pleasure. < as lemmas |
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