单词 | earth-line |
释义 | > as lemmasearth-line earth-line n. the line where the earth and sky appear to meet, the horizon; cf. skyline n. 1. ΚΠ 1850 S. Judd Richard Edney xxii. 250 My teacher..used to instruct us that there was an earth-line of the sky, as well as a sky-line of the earth. 1907 R. Kipling Twenty Poems (1918) 2 They are concerned with matters hidden—under the earth-line their altars are. 1952 N. Nicholson in C. Dyment New Poems 63 A day with sky so wide, So stripped of cloud..that you can see The earth-line as a curve. < as lemmas |
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