Solstice
['sɒlstɪs] or ['sɑlstəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
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解釋/意思:
(v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.
(v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
(v. i.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
整理:罗威娜
解釋/意思:
n. that point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator and where it is consequently at the turning-point of its apparent course—the summer solstice where it touches the tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice where it touches that of Capricorn: the time when the sun reaches these two points in its orbit 21st June and about 21st December.—adj. Solsti′tial pertaining to or happening at a solstice esp. at the north one.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Emanuel, who had hitherto stood looking on, dark as the winter-solstice, brightened up somewhat; he thought I should now show myself at least no fool. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Every year, about the time of the summer solstice, a fleet of a hundred and twenty vessels sailed from Myos-hormos, a port of Egypt on the Red Sea. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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