| 词汇 | moonlit |
| 词源 | moonlit. Moonlit is an adjective one might have guessed had been invented by a young romantic poet, and so it was. Tennys- on coined the word in his Arabian Nights (1830), when he was only 21: “The sloping of the moon-lit sward . . .” The British poet laureate, successor to Wordsworth, also invented evil- starred, in “Locksely Hall,” 1842. |
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