alight

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原始印歐語詞
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Passengers can only alight(词源1,义项2.1)from buses at an alighting point, and cannot board them.
  • (標準英音通用美式) 英語發音ə-līt'IPA(幫助)/əˈlaɪt/
  • 文檔
  • 韻部:-aɪt

词源 1[编辑]

源自中古英語 alighten ((从某处)下来;下(车,马);到达,停在;着陆;掉落;攻击;(雷,闪电)打,击;跳上(马背等);(段位,官阶)下降;使...(的段位,官阶)下降;出现,涌现;减轻;(基督教,指基督,天使,圣灵,奇迹等)下凡,降临;下(地狱);(某事)降临到,发生到) [以及其他形式][1]融合自:[2]

英语中,作a- (表示“离,出,走”的前缀) +‎ light (使...简单,使...变轻;拿走;从...卸货;(古旧)降落,着陆;下(车马))分析。

动词[编辑]

alight (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 alights,現在分詞 alighting,一般過去時及過去分詞 alighted alit)

  1. (及物, 亦比喻义, 棄用) 使...变 质量,程度等减轻缓解
    近義詞: (古旧) alighten
  2. (不及物)
    1. (常与fromoff连用) 车,马等(引申义) 完成旅途停下
      近義詞: (古旧) alighten(古旧) lightdisembarkdebarkget offget outunlight
      He alighted from his horse.
      了马。
      Passengers are alighting from the carriage.
      乘客们正马车上下来
    2. (亦比喻义, 常接atonupon, 指空中的对象) 降落着陆停下
      A flying bird alights upon a tree.
      飞鸟在了一棵树上。
      Snow alights on a roof.
      在屋顶上。
      • 1590埃德蒙·斯宾塞仙后(The Faerie Qveene. [], OCLC 960102938, book I, canto III, stanza 20, 頁號38:
        His fearefull freends vveare out the vvofull night, / Ne dare to vveepe, nor ſeeme to vnderſtand / The heauie hap, vvhich on them is alight, / Affraid, leaſt to themſelues the like miſhappen might.
        (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
      • 1667John Milton,“Book IV”,出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books,London: [] [Samuel Simmons], [], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [],London:Basil Montagu Pickering [],1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 395–397:
        Then from his loftie ſtand on that high Tree / Down he alights among the ſportful Herd / Of thoſe fourfooted kindes, himſelf now one, []
        (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
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      • 2012Andrew Martin,“The World of Charles Pearson”,出自 Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube,paperback edition,London:Profile Books,出版年份2013, →ISBN, 頁號25:
        In 1851 the Great Northern Railway had reached London and began operating into a terminus at Maiden Lane, just north of the New Road [later renamed Euston Road]. In 1854 they moved up to the New Road itself, with the opening of King's Cross station, east of Euston. The railways were alighting on the New Road like birds perching on a branch (the Midland Railway would open St Pancras, between Euston and King's Cross in 1868), and [Charles] Pearson took note.
        (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
    3. (古舊) 下来降下
    4. (常接onupon) 重重
    5. (比喻义, 常接onupon) 偶然找到,偶然碰到
    6. (棄用) 到达
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词源 2[编辑]

动词可能另派生自其他词:[3]

英语中,作a- (表示“离,出,走”的前缀) +‎ light (点(火);点燃;燃起来;照亮;照路)分析。

形容词和副词派生自晚期中古英語 alight (形容词) [以及其他形式],源自古英語 ālīhtālȳht[3]古英語 ālīhtanālȳhtan (动词,见上)的过去分词形式;但随后亦被解读为a- (表示“到,上,于”的前缀,用来表示条件、状态或方式) +‎ light (明亮的,清晰的)[6]

动词[编辑]

alight (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 alights,現在分詞 alighting,一般過去時及過去分詞 alit alighted) (及物, 比喻, 古舊)

  1. 照亮
    近義詞: 參見Thesaurus:illuminate
    反義詞: darken
  2. 使...亮起点燃
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形容词[编辑]

alight (無比較級)

  1. 燃烧的,着火
    The burning embers and the dry wind quickly set the whole neighbourhood alight.
    燃着的灰烬和干燥的风很快将附近的所有房子点了。
    The sticks were damp and wouldn’t catch alight.
    火柴湿了,划不
    • 1961 February,Balmore [pseudonym],“Driving and Firing Modern French Steam Locomotives – Part One”,出自 Trains Illustrated,London:Ian Allan Publishing, ISSN 0141-9935, OCLC 35845948, 頁號110:
      With a heavy load of 650 tons for Arras and Lille we started very quietly, with about a third of a glass of water, and the fire barely alight. This frightened me, but I had reckoned without the 4-6-4's American mechanical stoker.
      (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
  2. (常接with) 发光的;颜色鲜艳的,艳丽
    近義詞: 參見Thesaurus:shining
    反義詞: 參見Thesaurus:dark
    1. (指电光源) 的,发光的
  3. (比喻义, 因感情或活动而)柔光
    Her face was alight with happiness.
    她的脸充满了欣喜。
用法说明[编辑]

形容词仅能作表语。

副词[编辑]

alight (不可比)

  1. (亦比喻义, 主要用于set alight) 燃着
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参考资料[编辑]

  1. alighten, v.(1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. alight, v.1”, OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “alight1, v.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
  3. 3.0 3.1 alight, v.2”, OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021
  4. alighten, v.(2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  5. onlighten, v.(1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  6. alight, adj. and adv.”, OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “alight2, adjective.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.