| 单词 | sunround |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunround sunround n. originally U.S. (somewhat rare) (a) a unit of time based on the sun's apparent movement across the sky; a day; (b) a unit of time based on a planet's orbit around a sun; a year.Now chiefly in science fiction or fantasy contexts. ΚΠ 1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 39 I can generally get on their trail inside a sunround. 1946 P. Wheeler Wonder Tales of Hawaii 52 I love thee more each sun-round. 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King App. D. 385 In Middle-earth the Eldar also observed a short period or solar year, called a coranar or ‘sun-round’. 1988 D. Duane Star Trek: Spock's World 140 A sunround went by: two. And in the middle of the second sunround, the Mother went to sleep one morning and did not awaken again. 2005 M. Davidson Really Unusual Bad Boys xii. 121 A sunround is many, many sunrounds, as many sunrounds as it takes to get through Time of Sowing, Time of Growth, Time of Reaping, Time of Sleeping. But for the sun to climb into the sky and then fall down, that is just a sunround. < as lemmas |
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