| 单词 | sun mote |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun mote sun mote n. (chiefly in plural) a particle of dust visible in sunlight; a mote in a sunbeam; cf. sundust n. ΚΠ 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 96 Cabalisticall coiners, and impostural wringers, making at their own pleasure..bodies of Atomes, or sun motes, something of nothing. a1628 F. Greville Mustapha ii. Chorus in Certaine Wks. (1633) 116 A play of Sunne-motes from mans small World come. 1799 A. Donoughue Ess. Passions 46 Tho' born where beauties thick as sun-motes glow'd, To fair Almena's charms alone he bow'd. 1842 Court Mag. Dec. 267 A sun-mote playing in the further distance, reflected on the floor and ceiling. 1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 96 The sun-motes where the mosses drowse. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 July v. 11 The air is scented with pine and lighted with sun motes playing in spider webs. < as lemmas |
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