| 单词 | light of day |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) light of day (a) (the) light of day: the natural light of the day, daylight.In quot. OE showing the equivalent phrase with the genitive. Cf. α. forms at daylight n. ΚΠ OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) in Englische Studien (1886) 9 296 Gif hit byþ geendod be dæges leohte [L. luce diei].., onginnan hi primsangc butan ælcere bellan cnelle, gif hit elles byþ, abidan hi dæges.] a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14195 Qua has to wenden ani wai, God es to go bi light o dai. a1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (St. John's Cambr. E. 2) (1872) ii. §34. 43 Yif the Mone [shewe] himself by liht of day, than maistow wyrke this same conclusioun by the sonne. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 130 The appointed hour was approaching when man in his turn was to go forth into the light of day. 2015 D. A. Murphy Two Armies on Rio Grande viii. 210 Hope that the light of day would dissipate some of the gloom and rebelliousness faded quickly. < as lemmas |
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