| 单词 | sun-clear |
| 释义 | > as lemmassun-clear sun-clear adj. extremely clear (in various senses of clear adj.); (also and in earliest use figurative) highly obvious, plainly evident, totally unambiguous. [In the figurative use perhaps after German sonnenklar plainly evident (18th cent. or earlier; already in Middle High German in lit. sense ‘bright as the sun’); compare Dutch zonneklaar plainly evident (17th cent.; 16th cent. in lit. sense) and also Middle Low German sunnenklār bright as the sun, (of evidence) clearly presented.] ΚΠ 1847 R. Montgomery Relig. & Poetry 245 All is frank display, That scorns pretence, and scatters each disguise A sun-clear verity. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 38 Make the aged eye sun-clear. 1885 Daily News 10 Nov. 7/5 What there is in Royal subjects to paralyze the genius of a painter we fail to to divine, but it is sun-clear that Mr. Haag could no more resist this unfortunate influence than the greater Landseer. 1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 36 The grass takes on a shade Of paradisal green, sun-clear. 1985 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. In depicting the seaside her colors are often as technicolor as the brightest, sun-clear day on a Queensland beach. < as lemmas |
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