单词 | earthshine |
释义 | earthshinen. Astronomy. Sunlight reflected by the earth, esp. as illuminating part of the moon's surface not lit by sunlight. Cf. earth-light n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > light of moon > [noun] > from earth earth-light1810 earthshine1813 1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine I. p. xvi And now day begins to decline; and your globe..will soon shed her pale earthshine over the landscape. 1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. i. vii. 79 The Earth-shine is more luminous before the new Moon than after it. 1946 Nature 21 Dec. 907/1 The portion of the moon's surface that is lighted up by earthshine. 1963 Daily Tel. 20 May 26 (heading) Space man slept well... Kept out ‘earthshine’. 1999 Sky & Telescope Mar. 106 (caption) Have you ever noticed earthshine, a smoky glow on the dark portion on the crescent moon? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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