英语词汇“pretty dancers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pretty dancers n. chiefly Scottish the aurora borealis; cf. dancer n. 5.

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1717 E. Ward Brit. Wonders 32 Nature's sportings that arise So frequent in the northern skies,..Are stil'd, The Pritty Dancers, there.

1734 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1719–33 (Royal Soc.) 6 ii. i. 89 I am told that these meteors are much more common in the N. of England than here, and that they go by the name of..pretty dancers.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pretty-Dancers, a name given by the vulgar to the Aurora Borealis.

1932 J. M. E. Saxby Shetland Trad. Lore 189 Aurora Borealis is known as ‘The Pretty Dancers’.

1990 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Review Suppl.) 32 In the far north [of Scotland], they call the Aurora Borealis the Pretty Dancers.

单词	pretty dancers
释义	> as lemmas pretty dancers pretty dancers n. chiefly Scottish the aurora borealis; cf. dancer n. 5. ΚΠ 1717 E. Ward Brit. Wonders 32 Nature's sportings that arise So frequent in the northern skies,..Are stil'd, The Pritty Dancers, there. 1734 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1719–33 (Royal Soc.) 6 ii. i. 89 I am told that these meteors are much more common in the N. of England than here, and that they go by the name of..pretty dancers. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pretty-Dancers, a name given by the vulgar to the Aurora Borealis. 1932 J. M. E. Saxby Shetland Trad. Lore 189 Aurora Borealis is known as ‘The Pretty Dancers’. 1990 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Review Suppl.) 32 In the far north [of Scotland], they call the Aurora Borealis the Pretty Dancers. extracted from prettyadj.n.int. < as lemmas
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