(亦作Moon)
1- the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun月球, 月亮。
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- a natural satellite of any planet卫星。
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the moon
figurative anything that one could desire〈喻〉渴望之物：you must know he'd give any of us the moon.
你应该知道他会给我们每个人摘下月亮。
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- poetic/literary or humorous a month〈诗/文或幽默〉月份：
that wonderful night four moons ago.
四个月前的那个美好夜晚。
The moon orbits the earth in a period of 28 days, going through a series of phases from new moon to full moon and back again during that time. Its average distance from the earth is some 384,000 km and it is 3,476 km in diameter. The bright and dark features which outline the face of 'the Man in the Moon' are highland and lowland regions, the former heavily pockmarked by craters due to the impact of meteorites. The moon has no atmosphere, and the same side is always presented to the earth.
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- no obj., with adverbial behave or move in a listless and aimless manner懒散度日; 浪荡：
I don't want her mooning about in the morning.
我不想让她浪荡一上午。
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- act in a dreamily infatuated manner出神; 呆视：
Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy.
蒂莫西像小学生那样呆视着她。
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- no obj. informal expose one's buttocks to someone in order to insult or amuse them〈非正式〉［表示侮辱或逗笑］对…亮光屁股。
短语
many moons ago
- informal a long time ago〈非正式〉很久以前。
over the moon
- informal extremely happy; delighted〈非正式〉非常高兴; 快活极了。
- ORIGIN: from The Cow jumped over the Moon, a line from a nursery rhyme
派生词
moonless
adjectivemoonlike
adjective词源
Old English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to MONTH, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn 'month'， and also Latin metiri 'to measure' (the moon being used to measure time).