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Lit up by starlight — that is, the only light falling on the scene comes from the stars. It is almost always used before a noun: a starlit sky, a starlit garden, a starlit walk home. Two things worth noticing. First, starlight is very weak, so 'starlit' does not really mean bright; it means dark-but-just-visible, and the word carries a mood — quiet, romantic, a little lonely — more than it carries information about how much you can see. Second, this is a written word. You will meet it in novels, poems, song lyrics, travel writing, and the names of restaurants and hotels; you will almost never hear a friend say it in normal conversation. If you are just telling someone about last night, people say 'there were so many stars out'. Note also that 'a starlit night' means the night was clear enough for the stars to show, so writers use it as a quiet way of saying the weather was fine.
星光照耀的、滿天星斗的（多用於文學描寫，如 a starlit sky 星空、星光下的夜空）
組成star + -lit. '-lit' is the past participle of 'light' used as an ending meaning 'lit by ~'. English builds a whole small family this way: moonlit, sunlit, candlelit, firelit, gaslit, floodlit.
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。
starlitadj
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Illuminated by starlight.
- BEHIND him lay the gray Azores,/ Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’” “My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’” They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!” They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!” Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
- The night continued beautifully clear and fine, and as we came into the fell country the outlines of the hills showed up dark against the starlit sky.
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。