Dew
['djuː] or [du]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air; 'in the morning the grass was wet with dew'.
康拉德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
(n.) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
(v. t.) To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
(a. & n.) Same as Due, or Duty.
安布尔手打
解釋/意思:
n. an obsolete spelling of due.
n. moisture deposited from the air on cooling esp. at night in minute specks upon the surface of objects: early freshness (esp. in Dew of his youth).—v.t. to wet with dew: to moisten.—ns. Dew′berr′y a kind of bramble or blackberry having a bluish dew-like bloom on the fruit; Dew′-claw a rudimentary inner toe of a dog's hind-foot; Dew′drop; Dew′fall the falling of dew the time it falls; Dew′point the temperature at which dew begins to form; Dew′-rett′ing the process of rotting away the gummy part of hemp or flax by exposure on the grass to dew and rain; Dew′stone a Nottinghamshire limestone; Dew′-worm the common earthworm.—adj. Dew′y.—Mountain dew (slang) whisky originally illicitly distilled or smuggled spirits.
手打:纳塔利
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To feel the dew falling on you in your dreams, portends that you will be attacked by fever or some malignant disease; but to see the dew sparkling through the grass in the sunlight, great honors and wealth are about to be heaped upon you. If you are single, a wealthy marriage will soon be your portion.
霍华德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- What do you say to my She cal'-led to' her love' From the lat'-tice a-bove, 'O come in' from the fog-gy fog'-gy dew'. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She lured me to leave this den and follow her forth into dew, coolness, and glory. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I find on this pavement that wanderer-wooing summer night of which I mused; I see its moon over me; I feel its dew in the air. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Dew glistens on the foliage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Poverty was the cloud that veiled her excellencies, and all that was good in her seemed about to perish from want of the genial dew of affection. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Dew had fallen heavily since the wind had dropped, but, as he stood there, he thought there would be frost by morning. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The grass was lush underfoot after the pineneedle floor of the forest and the dew on the grass wet through their canvas rope-soled shoes. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I drink: it is as if sweetest dew visited my lips in a full current. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Light mists arise, and the dew falls, and all the sweet scents in the garden are heavy in the air. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There must be something, too, in its dews which heals with sovereign balm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The dews of a summer evening are what I would not expose any body to. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The dews at this hour is unwholesome for females, observed Joe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The dews of Hermon are falling upon us now, and the tents are almost soaked with them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- When he came back by the same path it was dusk, and the dews were coating every green thing. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
整理:辛克莱