英语词汇“empire of the sun”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

empire of the sun n. (a) poetic the domain of the sun; (b) (a name given to) an empire, country, or other region associated with the sun or a sun god; spec. (in later use) Japan (now somewhat archaic). [With reference to South America apparently reflecting the Incas' view of themselves as descendants of the sun god (compare Spanish hijos del sol , lit. ‘children of the sun’ (mid 16th cent.)).

With reference to Japan compare Empire of the Rising Sun n. at Phrases 1.]

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1685 A. Behn Pindarick Poem on Happy Coronation 5 With life-giving Rule the God maintains The Glorious Empire of the Sun.

1751 tr. I. H. de La Marche-Courmant Lett. of Aza, Peruvian v. 12 The first ships expected on the coast you inhabit, are from the empire of the Sun [Fr. la terre du Soleil].

1826 Lancet 23 Sept. 830/2 The Chinese allow no books to be brought within the great empire of the sun.

1840 W. B. Tappan Poet's Tribute 308 Unhappy India!—empire of the sun!—Rich in the gifts of nature, yet undone.

1859 New Monthly Mag. 115 4 Nip-pun, or Nip-pon,..‘Sun-source country’, the Empire of the Sun, has been justly compared by Kæmpfer to Great Britain and Ireland.

1883 World's Cycl. Sci. III. 88/1 To complete this sketch of the Empire of the Sun, we must add..certain bodies which, without departing from his kingdom, are always journeying.

1890 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 1 Dec. 864 The ruling Inca sent them teachers, not only to instruct them in the religion and laws of the Empire of the Sun.

1913 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 37 262 These broad waters..were the pathway which Europe traversed in her search for a passage to Cathay; here was once the entrance to the realms of gold, to the gleaming empire of the sun.

1937 E. Caldwell You have seen their Faces (1995) i. 1 It is the Southern Extremity of America, the Empire of the Sun, the Cotton States... It is The South.

1985 Guardian 3 Jan. 13/5 (headline) A shadow drifts over the empire of the sun. Robert Whymant reports from Tokyo.

2010 G. E. Salecker Blossoming Silk against Rising Sun iii. 22 In 1905, after Japan's defeat of Russia.., the Empire of the Sun took control of all of Korea and a part of Manchuria that had earlier been gobbled up by the Russians.

单词	empire of the sun
释义	> as lemmas empire of the sun empire of the sun n. (a) poetic the domain of the sun; (b) (a name given to) an empire, country, or other region associated with the sun or a sun god; spec. (in later use) Japan (now somewhat archaic). [With reference to South America apparently reflecting the Incas' view of themselves as descendants of the sun god (compare Spanish hijos del sol , lit. ‘children of the sun’ (mid 16th cent.)). With reference to Japan compare Empire of the Rising Sun n. at Phrases 1.] ΚΠ 1685 A. Behn Pindarick Poem on Happy Coronation 5 With life-giving Rule the God maintains The Glorious Empire of the Sun. 1751 tr. I. H. de La Marche-Courmant Lett. of Aza, Peruvian v. 12 The first ships expected on the coast you inhabit, are from the empire of the Sun [Fr. la terre du Soleil]. 1826 Lancet 23 Sept. 830/2 The Chinese allow no books to be brought within the great empire of the sun. 1840 W. B. Tappan Poet's Tribute 308 Unhappy India!—empire of the sun!—Rich in the gifts of nature, yet undone. 1859 New Monthly Mag. 115 4 Nip-pun, or Nip-pon,..‘Sun-source country’, the Empire of the Sun, has been justly compared by Kæmpfer to Great Britain and Ireland. 1883 World's Cycl. Sci. III. 88/1 To complete this sketch of the Empire of the Sun, we must add..certain bodies which, without departing from his kingdom, are always journeying. 1890 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 1 Dec. 864 The ruling Inca sent them teachers, not only to instruct them in the religion and laws of the Empire of the Sun. 1913 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 37 262 These broad waters..were the pathway which Europe traversed in her search for a passage to Cathay; here was once the entrance to the realms of gold, to the gleaming empire of the sun. 1937 E. Caldwell You have seen their Faces (1995) i. 1 It is the Southern Extremity of America, the Empire of the Sun, the Cotton States... It is The South. 1985 Guardian 3 Jan. 13/5 (headline) A shadow drifts over the empire of the sun. Robert Whymant reports from Tokyo. 2010 G. E. Salecker Blossoming Silk against Rising Sun iii. 22 In 1905, after Japan's defeat of Russia.., the Empire of the Sun took control of all of Korea and a part of Manchuria that had earlier been gobbled up by the Russians. extracted from empiren.adj. < as lemmas
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