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单词 light-winged
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light-winged
light-winged adj. having wings capable of swift and agile flight; characterized by such flight; frequently poetic and in figurative contexts.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly and easily
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1595 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Babilon 26 That light winged quier That to the verdaunt boughes of bushes doth retier, Chirping before the sunne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 268 Light-wingd toyes, And feather'd Cupid foyles with wanton dulnesse, My..actiue instruments.
1764 W. Mason Poems sig. A2v Here, as the light wing'd moments glide serene.
1998 Japan Times (Nexis) 18 Nov. Suddenly the light-winged grace of a large seabird on the wing is traded for a heavy waddle on land.
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