单词 | sun shaft |
释义 | > as lemmassun shaft sun shaft n. a shaft of sunlight, a sunbeam; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of beamc885 sunbeamOE sunray1596 fire-glance1662 streamer1697 sunglade1832 sun-darta1835 sun shaft1837 1837 World of Fashion Oct. 240 See the young lips part, As that fond flower's which smileth too, If e'er it clasps unto it heart The Sun-shaft come from afar to woe. 1908 W. Churchill Mr. Crewe's Career xiii. 191 He had but to beckon a shining Pegasus from out a sun-shaft in the sky. 1941 E. Blunden Thomas Hardy iv. 67 The secret of that apparent indifference was his lifelong purpose..of striking for truth under the intense sunshafts of philosophic poetry. 2013 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 10 Mar. (Lifestyle section) As the arc of a double rainbow swept across the sky, sun shafts emerged from looming clouds, illuminating the town down below with streaks of gold. < as lemmas |
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