| 释义 |
fulmine, v.|ˈfʌlmɪn|
[ad. L. fulmin-āre: see fulminate v.]
1. trans. To send forth (lightning or thunder).
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 5 As it had beene a flake Of lightning through bright heven fulmined. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai iv. 381 A sound As 'twere of thunder fulmined nigh at hand, O'erwhelm'd his hearing.
b. fig. To ‘thunder’ or flash out.
1847Tennyson Princ. ii. 118 She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little-footed China.
2. intr. To ‘thunder’, speak out fiercely or energetically. Now chiefly in echoes of Milton's use (quot. 1671).
1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 276 He had interdicted and fulmined against the Emperour. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 270 Whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce Democratie, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece. c1820S. Rogers Italy, Luigi 35 How unlike him who fulmined in old Rome! 1870Lowell Study Wind. 384 Listening to him who fulmined over Greece. |