| 单词 | meteor-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈmeteor-like ˈmeteor-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. sig. A2 I vow..To hang her meteor like twixt heauen and earth. 1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 107 The Lutes..Genius..Whose flourish (Meteor-like) doth curle the aire With flash of high-borne fancyes. 1765 J. Beattie Judgment of Paris 23 All the Conqueror's dazzling glories slight, That, meteor-like, o'er trembling nations roll. 1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 3 As meteor like thou glidest by. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 174 The spot of light [sc. learning] shifted from place to place... We have seen it bursting out brilliantly at Padua in Vesalius, less brightly in Fabricius; it appeared meteor-like in Switzerland in Paracelsus. 1932 E. F. Benson Secret Lives (1985) vii. 133 The princes and prelates, the high-bred and the dastardly folk..had drawn their shining furrows, meteor-like, across her brain. 1964 B. Knapp in Yale French Stud. No. 31. 97 Artaud, meteor-like, arrived on the Surrealist scene during its heyday. < as lemmas |
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