英语词汇“man in the moon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

man in the moon

/ˌman ɪn ðə ˈmuːn/

noun

1An imagined semblance of a man (or a man's face) in the disc of the (full) moon; (hence) the mythical person suggested by this semblance, supposed to dwell in the moon.

Patterns seen in the disc of the moon have in the past been variously stylized as a man leaning on a fork and carrying a bundle of sticks, or as a man with his dog and a thorn bush; see Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (1870). In modern times the man in the moon is more usually figured as a man's face, either formed by the disc of the full moon or as a profile formed by the crescent moon..

2 no more than the man in the moon and variants: no more than anyone, not at all.

Origin

Middle English. From man + in + the + moon. Inhabitants of the moon were postulated in ancient Greek and Hellenistic Greek texts; for closer analogies to the English phrase, compare German der Mann im Mond, French le visage de la lune, Dutch het mannetje in de maan, and post-classical Latin rusticus in luna; an early and influential attestation of the last from a British source is.

单词	man in the moon
释义	man in the moon /ˌman ɪn ðə ˈmuːn/ noun 1An imagined semblance of a man (or a man's face) in the disc of the (full) moon; (hence) the mythical person suggested by this semblance, supposed to dwell in the moon. Patterns seen in the disc of the moon have in the past been variously stylized as a man leaning on a fork and carrying a bundle of sticks, or as a man with his dog and a thorn bush; see Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (1870). In modern times the man in the moon is more usually figured as a man's face, either formed by the disc of the full moon or as a profile formed by the crescent moon.. 2 no more than the man in the moon and variants: no more than anyone, not at all. Origin Middle English. From man + in + the + moon. Inhabitants of the moon were postulated in ancient Greek and Hellenistic Greek texts; for closer analogies to the English phrase, compare German der Mann im Mond, French le visage de la lune, Dutch het mannetje in de maan, and post-classical Latin rusticus in luna; an early and influential attestation of the last from a British source is.
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