| 单词 |
swift-winged |
| 释义 |
ˈswift-winged, a. Having swift wings, flying swiftly, rapid in flight (lit. and fig.).
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 15 Yet are these Feete..Swift-winged with desire to get a Graue. 1592Soliman & Pers. ii. ii. 33 Thou great commander of the swift wingd winds. 1619A. Newman Pleas. Vis. B ij, When youthfull Spleene Had ne're the wiles..of Pleasure seene, Nor dreampt, how pretious is swift-winged Time. 1725Pope Odyss. xv. 566 The hawk, Apollo's swift-wing'd messenger. 1785Burns Cotter's Sat. Nt. v, The social hours, swift⁓wing'd, unnotic'd fleet. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 696 The first family of the Moths is the Sphingidæ, a group which contains a great number of swift-winged insects. |

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