| 单词 | aurora borealis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaurora borealis aurora borealis n. (also transferred). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aurora > aurora borealis dancing-goats1563 petty dancers1635 streaming1694 north-light1706 aurora borealis1717 dancersc1717 northern morning1717 northern lights1722 aurora septentrionalis1728 northern dawn1728 northern light1728 morris dancers1735 streamers1735 north-shine1738 fire-flaught1787 boreal dawn1805 northern morn1822 firelights1845 1717 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 584 On February the 5th, 1716–7, at Eight at Night, an Aurora Borealis appeared. 1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton I. 131 She was eclipsed by an Aurora Borealis in the matrimonial sphere. 1822 Burrowes Cycl. (at cited word) On Sept. 2nd, 1621, the same phenomenon was seen all over France; and it was particularly described by Gassendus in his Physics, who gave it the name of aurora borealis. 1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance i. 12 A dome of frost~work..Which shone by moonlight—as the tale is—Like an aurora borealis. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 452 The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps. < as lemmas |
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