单词 | harvest moon |
释义 | harvest moonn. The moon which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 September), and which rises for several nights nearly at the same hour, at points successively further north on the eastern horizon. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > full moon > harvest moon Michaelmas moonc1400 harvest moon1709 1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) ii. 229 Seventy Harvest-Moons Fill'd his wide Granaries with Autumnal Joy. 1747 J. Ferguson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 538 All the Phænomena of the Harvest-Moon become very plain by this additional Part. 1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy i. 267 The waning harvest-moon shone cold and bright. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. xii. 217 The broad harvest-moon was in the heavens, and filled the air as with a softer and holier day. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. iv. §30. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1709 |
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