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    Lamplight is the soft light that comes from a lamp — a table lamp, an oil lamp, or an old street lamp — not from the sun, and not from a hard, bare bulb. People choose this word when they care about the feel of the light: warm, a little yellow, often a bit dim, the kind you get in a quiet room at night. You will meet it more in stories than in everyday talk. “By lamplight” means you are reading or sitting with only a lamp on. A torch (the small hand light) does not usually give you lamplight; that word belongs to a lamp that stays in one place and makes a pool of light.

    燈光;燈火(偏書面、有氣氛的說法)

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組成lamp + light. From Middle English lampe lyght (and close spellings). lamp = the thing that makes the light; light = the brightness itself. Dutch lamplicht and German Lampenlicht are built the same way.

同家族的字

  • lampthe first half: the thing giving the light
  • lightthe second half: the brightness itself
  • lampshadesame lamp, plus the cover over it
  • lamplightersame lamp, plus the person who used to light street lamps

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lamplightnoun/ˈlæmplaɪt/

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    The light emitted by a lamp.

    • We sat around reading by lamplight all night.
    • I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.

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