喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈsʌnlaɪt/陽光；日光

    The natural light that comes from the sun. It can fall straight onto something, or be blocked or let through by things like clouds, curtains, or leaves.

    sunlight 講的是「太陽送出來的那道光」本身——落在水面上、灑進教室、照到植物葉子上的那個東西。它可以想成一種會移動的東西：英文說 sunlight streams in（光湧進來）、filters through（光滲進來），所以 sunlight 前面常常配「有多少、被什麼擋住」的形容詞，例如 bright sunlight、direct sunlight（沒被擋住、直直照下來）。中文的「日光」比較書面（日光由水面反射出來），日常講話多半用「陽光」。

    示範例句 · Example

    The lake sparkled in the bright sunlight.

    中文翻譯那座湖在明亮的陽光中閃閃發光。

    常見搭配

    • bright sunlight

      明亮／刺眼的陽光

      strong sunlight that makes you squint

      She shaded her eyes against the bright sunlight.

    • direct sunlight

      直射的陽光

      sunlight falling straight onto something, with nothing in the way

      This plant prefers to be kept out of direct sunlight.

    • in the sunlight

      在陽光下

      with the sun's light shining on you or on something

      The children ate their lunch in the sunlight.

    • morning / afternoon / evening sunlight

      早晨／午後／傍晚的陽光

      sunlight at a particular time of day

      The garden looked lovely in the evening sunlight.

    • sunlight streams in

      陽光湧進來

      a lot of sunlight comes into a place

      Hana pulled back the curtains, and sunlight streamed in.

    • a shaft / ray of sunlight

      一道陽光

      a narrow line of sunlight coming through a small opening

      A shaft of sunlight came through the gap in the roof.

    • dappled sunlight

      斑駁的陽光

      sunlight broken into bright and dark patches by leaves

      We walked through the dappled sunlight of the forest.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English sonnelight, from Old English sunnan lēoht; sun + light.

源自古英文 sunnan lēoht，就是 sun「太陽」加 light「光」。

Wiktionary

A can picture the light that leaves the sun and lands on things: a bright patch moving across the floor, a stripe cut off when a cloud passes, small spots coming through leaves. The word points at that visible, warm light itself, not at brightness as an idea.

可以想成太陽送出來、真的落在東西上的那道光：鋪在地板上的一塊亮、被雲一擋就消失、從葉子縫裡漏下來的一點一點。sunlight 指的是這個看得見、曬得到溫度的東西本身，而不是抽象的「明亮」。所以它會被窗簾擋住、會被樹遮掉，也可以直接照在臉上。

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同家族的字

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

sunlightnoun/ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/

  • 1

    All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.

    • Meronym: sunbeams
    • Near-synonym: daylight
  • 2

    Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.

  • 3

    Synonym of sunrise.

  • 4

    Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).

    • sunlight zone

sunlightverb/ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/

  • 1

    To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。