| 单词 | red rain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred rain red rain n. rain that is red or reddish in colour because of suspended dust or, rarely, green algae containing a red pigment (cf. red snow n.); (in early use also figurative) blood. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > with suspended particles or pollution red rain?1660 yellow rain1755 blood rain1772 acid rain1845 sulphur rain1882 ?1660 T. Jordan Divinity & Morality sig. §3v May the red Rain which our rude wrath let fall In num'rous showres of vengeance National, Be all wash'd out. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xvii. 11 How that red rain hath made the harvest grow! 1885 H. G. Seeley Phillips's Man. Geol. (new ed.) I. ii. 18 In the Arctic regions minute spherical particles of iron are sometimes brought down from the air in snow... A like cause must account for the red rain which fell at Blankenburg in 1819. 1904 G. S. West Treat. Brit. Freshwater Algæ 189 The curious phenomenon known as ‘Red Rain’ owes its colour in a few instances to the presence of this Alga [sc. Sphærella lacustris]. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 258 In earlier times, the mysterious red rains that still are reported periodically in the world's press as ‘rains of blood’ were once believed..to have been the very menstrual blood of the moon goddess. < as lemmas |
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