| 释义 |
snow-like, a. and adv.
[f. snow n.1]
A. adj. Like or resembling snow in colour, appearance, etc.
1663S. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxxv. (1687) 433 But after their resurrection they were of a pure white snow-like colour. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 209/1 With a Glass Spoon take off the Snow-like Cream as it arises. 1820Shelley Prom. Unb. ii. iv. 95 Cities then Were built, and through their snow-like columns flowed The warm winds. 1836–41Brande Chem. 526 Another portion is frozen into a white snow-like solid. 1895F. A. Swettenham Malay Sketches 126 A motionless drift of snow-like cloud.
B. adv. In or after the manner of snow.
1850Mrs. Browning Man's Requirem. iv, Their lids, that fall Snow-like at first meeting. |