| 单词 | dark-shining |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdark-shining c. Modifying adjectives and participles, with the sense ‘in a dark way; darkly’, as in dark-shining, dark-splendid, dark-thinking, etc. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 99 Darke working Sorcerers. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 226 Sables, of glossy Black; and dark-embrown'd. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lix. 37 Match me those Houries,..With Spain's dark-glancing daughters. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 603 Oh, dark-shining dusk of Night. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Lancelot & Elaine 337 in Idylls of King The face before her lived, Dark-splendid. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill vii. 221 Immersed in the dark-flowing canal. 1980 W. M. Spackman Presence with Secrets (1982) ii. 60 A beautiful dark-gleaming Hepplewhite dining table and shield-back chairs. 2010 New Yorker 22 Nov. 70/3 Never quite up to her own exalted standards, she is often frustrated, dark-thinking, on edge. < as lemmas |
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