单词	illumination
释义	illuminationil‧lu‧mi‧na‧tion /ɪˌluːməˈneɪʃən, ɪˌljuː- $ ɪˌluː-/ noun formal Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Among Clark's more important illuminations are his thoughts on Lewis' mysterious death. The only illumination came from emergency lights over the doors. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Many of his utterances are crammed with illumination and entertainment. Only toward the right, where the Argolid Temple stood, was there illumination. The lighted shop windows threw a bleak illumination on to the empty pavements. The object was to study the effect of small changes in the exposure, illumination etc. Then he slumps forward, face down, turned away from the last bit of dim illumination offered by the night sky. Very suitable for paludariums, it grows over rocks, stumps, or branches but requires artificial illumination. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► provide · All the plants listed here should be provided with plenty of illumination.· He regularly consults his watch which also provides the only illumination.· This covered an aperture in the bodywork to provide internal illumination. 1[uncountable] lighting provided by a lamp, light etc:  White candles, the only illumination, burned on the table. soft illumination2[countable usually plural] a picture or pattern painted on a page of a book, especially in the past:  the illuminations in a medieval manuscript3illuminations [plural] British English a show of coloured lights used to make a town bright and colourful:  the Blackpool illuminations4[countable, uncountable] formal a clear explanation or understanding of a particular subject
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