| 释义 |
spring-like, adv. and a.
[f. spring n.1]
A. adv. As in, like to, the season of spring.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 160 The ground did spring-like florish there. 1905Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 10/1 A new impulse of literary vitality seems to have swept spring⁓like over the American Continent.
B. adj. Resembling that of the spring season; like that prevalent during spring; vernal.
1729Savage Wanderer v, There the last blossoms spring⁓like pride unfold. 1848Hoffmeister's Trav. Ceylon, etc. v. 195 The climate here is most agreeably temperate and spring-like. 1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 391 The weather was cool and springlike. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iii, Miss Lambert..looked lovely in soft, clear white Indian muslin, over spring-like green. |