单词 | oil-bright |
释义 | > as lemmasoil-bright oil-bright adj. (a) bright or glistening with oil; (b) that is as bright or glistening as oil. ΚΠ 1891 O. Wilde Intentions (1905) 107 The king whom, in long green-curtained litter, slaves bore upon oil-bright shoulders, and fanned with peacock fans. 1987 St. Andrews Rev. 32 9 Every bee..had the wet and oil-bright face of some familiar Cherokee. 1999 I. Edghill Queenmaker (2003) xxi. 266 Tamar stood there silent... Her eyes were oil-bright. 2010 E. St. J. Mandel Lola Quartet ix. 48 Previously unimagined dwellings: a van in the parking lot of a grocery store in Queens, a boat on the oil-bright surface of the Gowanus Canal. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。