- 1
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)
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
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lamplightnoun/ˈlæmplaɪt/
- 1
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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。