Rainbow
['reɪnbəʊ] or ['renbo]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an illusory hope; 'chasing rainbows'.
(noun.) an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Iris.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see a rainbow in a dream, is prognostic of unusual happenings. Affairs will assume a more promising countenance, and crops will give promise of a plentiful yield. For lovers to see the rainbow, is an omen of much happiness from their union. To see the rainbow hanging low over green trees, signifies unconditional success in any undertaking.
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例句/造句/用法:
- On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Rainbow colors recombined to form white light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- White light is not a simple light, but is composed of all the colors which appear in the rainbow. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- And one could cut a pretty enough scarf out of a rainbow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Thus we see, from two simple experiments, that all the colors of the rainbow may be obtained from white light, and that these colors may be in turn recombined to produce white light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- And when we come to speak of beauty, this sea is no more to be compared to Tahoe than a meridian of longitude is to a rainbow. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Oh, father, see how red is the rainbow! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A deep gulf, she observed, had opened between Dora and me, and Love could only span it with its rainbow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- White light is a mixture of lights of rainbow colors. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- On the contrary, this fact seemed at first to set off the dead husband in his young wife's eyes, and to be the necessary cloud to the rainbow. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But his pursuit of fortune in England proved but the search for the rainbow’s pot of gold. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- She had turned (if Penelope was to be believed) all the colours of the rainbow. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- We shall remember, always, how we saw majestic Gibraltar glorified with the rich coloring of a Spanish sunset and swimming in a sea of rainbows. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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