A European moth that has green to gold wing patches with a metallic lustre.
金翅夜蛾
Genus Diachrisia, family Noctuidae: several species
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Metal and wood gleamed in the light: burnished brass on fixtures and valve and linkage rods, lamp-black iron pipes clustered around the recumbent bulk of the boiler, the reflective oiled surface of the milled-steel piston shafts.
The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay.
Old St Paul's Cathedral is painted white on the outside like an English parish church, and inside burnished brass plates remember secretaries of the choir, city councillors and vicars.
The handrails are of burnished brass, and rest upon polished oak tracks, which, with the iron work, are painted with the utmost skill and elegance.