| 单词 | levity |
| 释义 | lev·i·ty 1. a. < light without levity and serious without solemnity, always within the limits of classically disciplined form — New Yorker > < there was about him something that made levity seem out of place — O.S.J.Gogarty > b. < that emotional seriousness will not transform intellectual levity — W.C.Brownell > < pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire — Charles Dickens > 2. a. < the qualities of warmth, levity, and least resistance to the air — William Paley > b. < it will no longer be lightness in the sense of very little weight, but positive and active lightness; we call this levity — George Adams & Olive Whicher > < substitutes for universal gravity a polarity of gravity and levity, the latter a nonmechanical … force apparent … in certain volcanic phenomena and the growth of plants — Times Literary Supplement > |
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