释义 |
moonward(s, adv.|ˈmuːnwəd(z| [f. moon n.1 + -wards.] Towards the moon.
1855Bailey Mystic 35 From the immoveable star-plane to the prime Conceptacle of motion, moonwards, through All spheres in graded order. 1879G. MacDonald Hist. Photogen & Nycteris xiv, in Graphic Christmas No. 8/2 The fountain kept rushing moon⁓ward. 1900O. Wilde Let. 21 Apr. (1962) 823 He really bayed for boots, as a dog moonwards. 1918C. W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) xi. 270 Here and there in the jungle on each side, where a tree had fallen, or a flue of clear space led moonwards, the effect was of cold electric light seen through trees in city parks. 1959C. Mackenzie Lunatic Republic i. 21 Every sound without was so muted that the explosion which started the rocket moonwards sounded no more than the noise of one of the old railway trains of my youth. |