| 单词 | midnight lamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidnight lamp midnight lamp n. a lamp burnt at midnight; frequently figurative or allusively, one used to burn the midnight oil. ΚΠ a1709 J. Philips Poems (1927) 55 Oft at Midnight Lamp [I] Ply my brain-racking Studies. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 155 So also shuddered he—Not at dog's howl,..Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp. a1995 D. Davie On Edmund Spencer's House Irel. in Poems & Melodramas (1996) 7 But every so often still, the unruly muse Yearns for the flowery noon, the midnight lamp. < as lemmas |
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