| 单词 | blood moon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood moon blood moon n. a full moon appearing with a noticeable red tinge, esp. in a total lunar eclipse.In an eclipse, the effect is caused by sunlight refracted and filtered by the earth’s atmosphere. ΚΠ 1871 B. L. Farjeon Joshua Marvel I. v. 92 Blood-moons, and such a wealth of stars in the heavens, and such feather-fringed azure clouds as made the heart beat to think of them. 1908 W. C. Blakeman Black Hand 15 On the evening of the fete a fiery meteor swept the heavens from the pillars of Hercules to the Winter Palace and a great blood-moon stood over Paris. 1975 J. McCourt Mawrdew Czgowchwz (2002) vii. 196 The flamenco dancers practically caved the bandstand in, stomping berserk under a ‘blood moon’. 2014 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 Oct. a4 (caption) The red hue results from sunlight scattering off Earth's atmosphere, in what is known as a ‘blood moon’. < as lemmas |
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