| 单词 | borrowed light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasborrowed light a. Taken or used at second-hand, not one's own; assumed, counterfeit, ‘put on’; adopted or adapted for the nonce. borrowed light, (a) reflected light (see quot. 1834); also figurative; (b) see quot. 1963. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > reflected light reflectionc1475 borrowed light1571 reflect1594 resultance1618 resultancy1628 reverberation1860 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative secondary1398 borrowed1571 third hand1598 denominative1624 second hand1654 second-handed1682 of second hand1708 unoriginal1749 uninventive1776 unoriginative1845 uncreative1855 hand-me-down1881 reach-me-down1907 cookie cutter1922 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window loop1393 shot-windowc1405 gable window1428 batement light1445 church window1458 shot1513 casement1538 dream-hole1559 luket1564 draw window1567 loop-window1574 loophole1591 tower-windowc1593 thorough lights1600 squinch1602 turret window1603 slit1607 close-shuts1615 gutter window1620 street lighta1625 balcony-window1635 clere-story window1679 slip1730 air-loop1758 Venetian1766 Venetian window1775 sidelight1779 lancet window1781 French casement1804 double window1819 couplet1844 spire-light1846 lancet1848 tower-light1848 triplet1849 bar-window1857 pair-light1868 nook window1878 coupled windows1881 three-light1908–9 north-light1919 storm window1933 borrowed light1934 Thermopane1941 storms1952 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (i. 1) A borowed maner of speech. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo3v Her bright browes were deckt with borrowed haire. 1621–31 W. Laud Seven Serm. (1847) 8 Most of the later divines are for the borrowed sense. 1657 Bp. H. King Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonnets 139 Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is streight call'd in, and paid to night. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxvii. 81 [Bedlow] had travelled over many parts of Europe under borrowed names. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxxvi. 408 If comets shine by borrowed light. 1880 F. Hall in 19th Cent. Sept. 426 Has borrowed English been a peculiarity of the last two or three centuries? 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. ii. 39 Behind the shop was an extremely small room, the ‘parlour’, with a fireplace, a borrowed light and glass-door upon the shop and a larger window upon the yard behind. 1963 Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 13 Borrowed light, a glazed..opening in an internal wall or partition designed to admit light. < as lemmas |
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