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The light that comes down from the stars at night. It is an uncountable noun, so you say starlight, not a starlight or starlights. The amount is tiny — starlight is what is left when there is no moon and no lamps, just enough to see shapes by — so the word often carries a feeling of faint, soft, silvery light rather than brightness. It is used (we read the map by starlight) and also very often in songs, poems and names of hotels, cafés and songs, where it stands for something romantic and peaceful. It can sit in front of another noun too: a starlight walk, the Starlight Express.
星光。不可數,別加 a 或 s。中文的「星光」用法幾乎一樣,連那種浪漫、店名愛用的感覺都一樣。
原始詞典資料2 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。
starlightnoun/ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/
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Light emitted from stars.
- Meronym: starbeams
- 2
Light emitted from stars.
- Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
- Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.
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。