单词 | fog patch |
释义 | > as lemmasfog patch a. General attributive and appositive (in senses 1a, 2), as fog cloud, fog layer, fog patch, fog smoke, etc. ΚΠ 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 10 Whiles all the night thro' fog smoke-white [Errata: fog-smoke white] Glimmer'd the white moon-shine. 1841 J. G. Whittier in New World 10 Apr. 225/3 No fog-cloud veiled the deep. 1870 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 252/2 The white fog-pall had closed over her life. 1912 M. P. Willcocks Wings of Desire viii. 167 Instead of the smell of fog-smoke, there came to his nostrils the scent of the bazaar. 1949 U. Pope-Hennessy Canon Charles Kingsley ii. 14 He watched a fog-cloud hanging densely over the lower parts of the city of Bristol. 1979 H. Walter Eleonora's Falcon ii. 20 The fog mass is 50 to 150 m high and may engulf the island and its cliffs at any time of day. 2015 Express (Nexis) 14 Feb. 2 Early mist and fog patches will clear as southerly winds strengthen. < as lemmas |
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