单词 | bright |
释义 | bright I. 1. a. < a bright sun > < bright flames > < bright eyes > < some diamonds, very bright and sparkling — Charles Dickens > b. (1) < a sharp bright quality of voice > (2) < bright red > c. < bright hours with friends > < bright beauty > < a landscape bright with flowers > d. < those bright mornings when you whistle with a light heart — W.H.Auden > < bright prospects of victory > < his voice sounded so bright and cheerful, and had such a warm infectious gladness running through it — O.E.Rölvaag > 2. archaic < Troy … bright with fame — Shakespeare > 3. a. < bright young fellows with a charming literary swagger, they aspired to be wits — V.L.Parrington > b. < bright and busy and crowded with tourists — American Guide Series: Michigan > < she paused for a bright wave of her hand — Agnes S. Turnbull > c. < bright ideas, some of them showing a superb neglect of practical feasibility — Countryman > 4. < a bright wine > < bright beer > 5. a. of lumber b. of woodwork c. of coal d. < bright jewelry > < a bright leather > e. < bright onions ready for market > f. g. of yarn h. of silk i. of wool or cotton j. of a Negro < a bright mulatto > k. of wire rope 6. Synonyms: < like the bright spots that move about the sun — John Keats > < the moon was so bright that Smith watered and raked and weeded as if it had been day — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > brilliant implies intense, often sparkling brightness < midnight streets are more brilliant than noon — American Guide Series: New York City > < a luscious prairie … brilliant with bulb flowers in the springtime — H.J.Mackinder > radiant may stress emission of light rays but often it is only a colorful equivalent for bright < the sun and moon, then at the prime of their radiant power and glory — J.G.Frazer > < the radiant mist of the afterglow — Ellen Glasgow > < its beautifully terraced garden radiant with bloom — V.G.Heiser > luminous usually implies emission of a steady, suffused, glowing light < the château began to make itself strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous — Charles Dickens > < the inner surface of the glass is luminous of itself, shining with a soft and clear green light — K.K.Darrow > lustrous stresses a tendency to reflect light, especially in a rich and even way < the lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam — John Keats > < lustrous as some huge precious pearl — Henry James †1916 > effulgent and refulgent indicate resplendent or gleaming brilliance, the latter implying reflectivity < the fiery light of the sinking sun … mottled the mountains with effulgent spaces — John Tyndall > < the glorious sovereign of day, clothed in light refulgent, rolling on his gilded chariot, hastened to revisit the western realms — William Bartram > beaming and the poetical beamy stress emission of light beams or rays < the rising moon fair beaming — Robert Burns > < west and away the wheels of darkness roll, day's beamy banner up the east is borne — A.E.Housman > lambent often indicates soft luminosity < another moon new risen … of lambent flame serene — William Cowper > < kind, quiet, nearsighted eyes, which his round spectacles magnified into lambent moons — Margaret Deland > lucent, various in its uses and romantic in suggestion, may imply a transfiguring light < she walked below the lucent sun — Elinor Wylie > < till every particle glowed clean and new and slowly seemed to turn to lucent amber in a world of blue — W.W.Gibson > incandescent suggests intense, glowing brightness < here gush the sparkles incandescent like scattered showers of golden sand — Bayard Taylor > < the air rendered incandescent by the vehemence of the impacts of the electrons against its molecules — K.K.Darrow > Synonym: see in addition intelligent. II. < I say it is the moon that shines so bright — Shakespeare > < asked which of the two lamps shone brighter > III. 1. obsolete 2. 3. 4. brights plural IV. |
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