| 单词 | distant-dwelling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdistant-dwelling a. Chiefly poetic. Modifying participles, with the sense ‘at a distance, into the distance’, as in distant-dwelling, distant-shining, etc. (adjectives). ΚΠ 1666 W. Austin Ἐπιλοίμια Ἔπη: Anat. Pestilence 11 Like distant spreading trees, some sinking wretch Reaching out to, does onely shadow catch. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Tragedies 43 Train'd to bear The distant-wounding bow [Gk. ἑκηβόλοις τόξοισιν]. 1788 A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 181 The visits of distant-dwelling friends. 1888 H. L. Koopman Orestes 39 A cold and distant-shining star. 1909 W. L. Dawson Birds of Washington I. 99 A distant-faring, feathered stranger had tempted me across a bleak pasture. 1952 J. A. Ramsay Physiol. Approach Lower Animals viii. 146 The waggle dance is a message to the distant-foraging workers. 2013 Science 25 Oct. 440 We identified distant-acting transcriptional enhancers active in the developing craniofacial complex. < as lemmas |
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