“down、coming”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

down-coming

释义

▪ I. ˈdown-coming, vbl. n.
A coming down, descent (lit. and fig.): = downcome n. 1.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5271 At his doun commyng.1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 400 Before the bishops' downcoming.1883Besant All in Garden Fair ii. vi, A sad downcoming of his lofty aims.
▪ II. ˈdown-coming, ppl. a.
Coming down or onwards.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. xlix. 308 Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster.1865Harper's Mag. July 167/2 They..reached a spot where they passed the downcoming train in safety.1922Joyce Ulysses 427 He disappears into Olhousen's the pork butcher's, under the downcoming rollshutter.1952L. MacNeice Ten Burnt Offerings 50 Dust of down-coming houses.1968G. M. B. Dobson Explor. Atmos. (ed. 2) v. 107 The intensity of the down-coming, cosmic radiation increases with height.

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