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Examples:spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon)—lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)—lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. view sb as core figure—Eugene Cernan (1934-), US astronaut in Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions, "last man on the moon"—partial eclipse of the moon—the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month—fetch the moon from the seabed (idiom); a hopeless illusion—bright moon and clear wind (idiom); fig. clear and lovely atmosphere—lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)—wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance—lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom); unattached and at leisure—Sea of serenity (Mare Serenitatis, on the moon)—lit. the golden bird of the sun sets in the west, the jade hare of the moon rises in the east—Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology)—lit. shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil—neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)—heavenly bodies (esp. the sun, moon or five visible planets)—lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful—cow from Wu is terrified by the moon, mistaking it for the sun—the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project—the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies!—the sun, the moon, and the stars—the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)—first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month)—Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general from 2006—fetch the moon out of the sea (idiom); a hopeless illusion—lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake [idiom.]—lean against the railings and look at the moon [idiom.]—lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon [idiom.]— |