| 单词 | sun going down |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun going down sun going down n. (a) the time at which the sun sets, sunset (now rare); (b) †the region or direction in which the sun sets, the west (obsolete). [With sense (b) compare Occident n. Compare also sun arising n.] ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > sunset sunsetOE settle-gangc1000 evensongc1330 sun going downa1382 setc1386 decline14.. sun restc1405 sun gate down1440 sunsetting1440 sun sitting?a1475 falling1555 sunsetting1575 downsetting1582 sunfall1582 declining1588 sun go down1595 tramontation1599 vail1609 daylight gate1613 sundown1620 set of day1623 dayset1633 day shutting1673 sky setting1683 sun-under1865 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xix. 9 Behold þat þe dai is more bowid to þe sunne goyng down [L. ad occasum] & neyȝeth to þe euyn. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xii. 54 Whanne ȝe schulen se a cloude rysinge fro the sunne goynge doun [L. ab occasu], anon ȝe seyn, Reyn cometh. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 139 (MED) Grete was the feste, the iustes, and the dissportes, and lasted to the sonne goyng doune. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 129 (MED) He slew huge Pepill in the red more of athy, a litil afore the Sone goynge downe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/2 Sonne goyng downe, le soleil couchant. 1680 Lex Londinensis 217 That no Peter-man whatsoever..shall fleet for Flounders with any Rugge-net in the night time, from Sun going down until day light the next morning. 1971 M. Cowley Let. 20 Dec. in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 379 And tell dear Muriel how greatly I miss those sun-going-down hours. < as lemmas |
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