| 单词 | bright |
| 释义 | brightbright /braɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 adjective 1LIGHT shining strongly or with plenty of light: We sat outside in the bright afternoon sun. The light in here is not bright enough to read by. The room is bright and airy.THESAURUSstrong – very bright: The strong stage lights hurt my eyes.brilliant – very bright and clear: Brilliant morning sunshine was coming through the window.glaring – too bright to look at: When burned, the metal produces a glaring white light.dazzling – so bright that it hurts your eyes: The snow is dazzling in the sunshine.blinding – very bright, and making you unable to see for a short time: There was a blinding flash, then the noise of an explosion.intense – extremely bright: We use lasers, which are intense beams of light, to make tiny cuts in the skin.2COLORS bright colors are strong and easy to see: The book has bright, bold illustrations. Many of the houses were painted bright colors. Kate was wearing a bright red T-shirt.3INTELLIGENT intelligent and likely to be successful: Emma is a bright eight-year-old girl. You’re the one who has all the bright ideas. That wasn’t a very bright thing to do.► see thesaurus at intelligent4FUTURE likely to be successful: The outlook for the economy is not very bright. Ruth has a very bright future in the company.5CHEERFUL cheerful, happy, or full of life: The boy had a bright smile.bright with Her eyes were bright with excitement.6on the bright side relating to the good points in a situation that is bad in other ways: Look on the bright side – at least you learned something from the experience.7bright and early spoken very early in the morning: I’ll be here bright and early to pick you up.8the bright lights (of something) the interesting exciting life that people are supposed to have in big cities: He left home for the bright lights of New York.9bright spot an event or time that seems happy or good when everything else is upsetting or bad: The one bright spot of the trip was our trip to the theater.10as bright as a button smart and full of life11bright-eyed and bushy-tailed humorous completely awake and happy, even when it is very early in the morning: Christie was there, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at 6.30 a.m.[Origin: Old English beorht]—brightly adverb: The sun shone brightly.—brightness noun [uncountable] |
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