🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典 🎯
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
BNC: 2646 COCA: 2450

moon

Word family 
Related topics: Astronomy, Shapes, patterns
moon1 /muːn/ ●●● S3 W3 noun  
1  the moon/the Moon HAthe round object that you can see shining in the sky at night, and that moves around the Earth every 28 days 月亮，月球
 the craters on the surface of the Moon
月球表面的环形山
 The Americans landed on the Moon in 1969.
美国人于1969年登上月球。
 The moon appeared from behind a cloud.
月亮从云后钻了出来。
 The moon rose into the sky.
月亮升上天空。
 The moon was shining in the sky.
月儿当空照。
→4  See picture of 见图 SOLAR SYSTEM
2  [countableC usually singular]HACF the appearance or shape of the moon at a particular time 〔特定时间出现的〕月亮
 It was the night of the full moon.
那是一个月圆之夜。
 a clear night with a bright moon
一个皓月当空的清朗夜晚
 a thin crescent moon
一弯细细的新月
3  [countableC]HA a round object that moves around a planet other than Earth 卫星
 the moons of Saturn
土星的卫星
4  ask for the moon  (also cry for the moon British English) informalASK FOR something/ASK somebody TO DO something to ask for something that is difficult or impossible to obtain 要求得到难以[无法]得到的东西；妄想，异想天开
 There’s no point in crying for the moon.
异想天开是没有用的。
5  over the moon British EnglishBrE informalHAPPY very happy 非常高兴的
 She’s over the moon about her new job.
她对新工作非常满意。
Examples from the Corpus
over the moon• Staff here are all over the moon.• Although over the moon with it generally, I am disappointed with the lack of power in the naturally aspirated diesel engine.• If I found it - well, I'd be over the moon.• And Tony is over the moon about her.• She had been continually up the spout, or over the moon, about some one or something.• Yes, you've certainly scored a winner this month, folks, I hope you're over the moon about it!• I was so over the moon I walked all the way home to Streatham with this huge smile on my face.• I was over the moon for Tom, but I was also cold, wet, and in agony with my legs.
6  many moons ago literaryPAST a long time ago 很久以前
 It all happened many moons ago.
那都是很久以前的事了。
Examples from the Corpus
many moons ago• He left Derby many moons ago complaining they gagged him.• Several colour strains have bee bred since the original black and silver variety came out on the market many moons ago.• When I got my first laser printer many moons ago, my bank manager almost had a heart attack.
→ once in a blue moon at once1(15), → promise somebody the moon at promise1(3)
 COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: the appearance or shape of the moon at a particular time 〔特定时间出现的〕月亮
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + moon
bright 明亮的
The moon was very bright.
月儿非常明亮。
a full moon (=with a completely round shape) 满月
A full moon hung low in the sky.
一轮满月低悬在空中。
a half moon (=looking like half a circle) 半月
nA half moon was up now, pale and cool.
a crescent moon (=with a thin curved shape) 新月，月牙
nThe stars and thin crescent moon gave just enough light to see the path.
a new moon (=a very thin moon which is just starting to get bigger) 新月
nIt was twilight and a new moon was rising.
a silver/yellow moon 银色的/金色的月亮
nIt was a frosty night, with a cold silver moon.
a pale moon 苍白的月亮
nHer face glowed in the light of the pale moon.
a harvest moon (=the full moon that appears in late September or early October) 丰收之月〔秋分前后的圆月〕
nOver the potato fields a harvest moon was rising.
verbs
the moon shines 月光照耀
The moon shone through the window.
月光透过窗户照进来。
the moon rises (also the moon comes up) 月亮升起
He watched the full moon come up over the trees.
他注视着一轮满月从林间升起。
the moon appears 月亮出现
nA brilliant moon appeared over the mountains.
the moon comes out (=appears as it gets dark or a cloud moves) 〔天黑或云层散去后〕月亮出现
nThe moon came out from behind the clouds.
the moon hangs somewhere literary (=stays there for a long time) 月亮挂在某处
nThe moon hung over the quiet sea.
the moon sets (=goes down so that you cannot see it) 月亮落下
nThe moon had set, but the sky was clear.
the moon waxes (=gets bigger each night) 月渐圆
nThe moon waxed larger over the next few days.
the moon wanes (=gets smaller each night) 月渐缺[渐亏]
nThe August moon was waning.
nphrases
the light of the moon
The clouds blocked out the light of the moon.
there is no moon
There was no moon, and the fields were completely dark.
Examples from the Corpus
moon• There's no moon tonight.• It fell on my legs and lap through the skylight, a lovely slow silver moon.• Already the moon was up, a full moon bathing everything in a pale blue light.• There was nothing she could not do, he said, check the stars, even, and the moon.• But it was like the moon.• We arrived by the light of the moon.• I opened my eyes and through the cabin window saw the sliver of the moon just over the horizon.• Staff here are all over the moon.• You spend the next two days en route to the moon.• the moons of Saturn
moon2 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]  
1.informalJOKEINSULT to bend over and show your buttocks as a joke or a way of insulting someone 〔开玩笑或侮辱性地〕（对…）躬身露出光屁股
2 moon about/around phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE informalLAZY to spend your time lazily, moving around with no real purpose 闲荡，闲混
 I wish you’d stop mooning about and do something useful!
我希望你别再闲混，去做点有用的事情！
Examples from the Corpus
moon about/around• Is that you mooning about again?• Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.• You did not moon about love.• She was still mooning about the theatre, gazing at him.• But there was no point in mooning around until then.• What good can you do mooning around worrying, picking at your food like an anorexic, and giving yourself splitting headaches?
3 moon over somebody/something phrasal verbphr v old-fashionedLOVE to spend your time thinking about someone that you are in love with 为〔爱恋的人〕出神，痴痴地想念
 She sits mooning over his photograph for hours.
她一坐就好几个小时，对着他的照片出神。
Examples from the Corpus
moon over • It's bad enough that Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears.• In less unreasonable moments he was disgusted with this mooning over Leanna.• And Alice had better get off her high horse and realize there was more to life than mooning over Lester Stoner.• We could see the moon over the papyrus swamps.• I raise my arm, my finger traces a bird on the shape of the moon over the trees in front of me.
Examples from the Corpus
moon• Is that you mooning about again?• You did not moon about love.• Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.• What good can you do mooning around worrying, picking at your food like an anorexic, and giving yourself splitting headaches?• It's bad enough that Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy, wet behind the ears.• And Alice had better get off her high horse and realize there was more to life than mooning over Lester Stoner.• One couple mooned the President's limousine as it drove past.
Origin moon1
Old English mona
moon1 noun →COLLOCATIONS1moon2 verb
LDOCE Online
Chinese
Corpus

See also: ldoce4418jpg

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 朗文詞典 📚 – longman.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime