| 单词 | sunglade |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunglade sunglade n. (a) a glade in a forest that receives a lot of sunshine; (b) a patch or stretch of sunlight reflected on the surface of water (cf. moonglade n. at moon n.1 Compounds 2); (also) a shaft of sunlight, a sunbeam. 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 1832 Bristol Mercury 30 June I left the shade Where the hill-stream flows, For the hot sun-glade Where thy palm-leaves rose. 1849 H. Melville Mardi I. xxxix. 152 He would not be able to perceive us, owing to our being in what mariners denominate the sun-glade, or that part of the ocean upon which the sun's rays flash with peculiar intensity. 1876 Forest & Stream 13 July 368/2 The..mosquitoes hovered, like flies in a sun-glade. 1906 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 394/1 The sun-glade was glittering and twinkling on the water. 1923 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 32 116 The Broad Way of Tane is the gleaming sun glade, the path laid down by Tane for the souls of his descendants to traverse, to lead them on across vast ocean spaces. 1985 M. S. Lacy tr. M. Martinson Women & Appletrees 130 Mårbo is in the middle of the big forest's broadest sunglade, and the springs come early up here. < as lemmas |
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