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eclipse 音标拼音: [ɪkl'ɪps] [əkl'ɪps] [ikl'ɪps] n. 日蚀,月蚀,衰落
vt. 引起日蚀,引起月蚀,使黯然失色 日蚀,月蚀,衰落引起日蚀,引起月蚀,使黯然失色 eclipse n 1: one celestial body obscures another [ synonym: { eclipse}, { occultation}] v 1: be greater in significance than; " the tragedy overshadowed the couple' s happiness" [ synonym: { overshadow}, { dominate}, { eclipse}] 2: cause an eclipse of ( a celestial body) by intervention; " The Sun eclipses the moon today"; " Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies" [ synonym: { eclipse}, { occult}] Eclipse \ E* clipse"\, v. i. To suffer an eclipse. [ 1913 Webster] While the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Eclipse \ E* clipse"\ ([- e]* kl[ i^] ps"), n. [ F. [' e] clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. ' e` kleipsis, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. ' eklei` pein to leave out, forsake; ' ek out lei` pein to leave. See { Ex-}, and { Loan}.] 1. ( Astron.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth' s shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an { occultation}. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a { transit} of the planet. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature. [ 1913 Webster] That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. [ 1913 Webster] All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. -- Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster] As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. -- Shelley. [ 1913 Webster] { Annular eclipse}. ( Astron.) See under { Annular}. { Cycle of eclipses}. See under { Cycle}. [ 1913 Webster]
Eclipse \ E* clipse"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Eclipsed} ([- e]* kl[ i^] pst"); p. pr. & vb. n. { Eclipsing}.] 1. To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. " His eclipsed state." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] My joy of liberty is half eclipsed. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 179 Moby Thesaurus words for " eclipse": adumbrate, annular eclipse, apply to, bandage, becloud, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, benight, black, black out, blacken, blackout, blanket, blanketing, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, block, block the light, blockage, blocking, blot out, blotting out, brown, camouflage, canopy, cast a shadow, cementwork, central eclipse, cloak, cloaking, clothe, cloud, cloud over, clouding, coating, conceal, concealment, cope, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, cowl, curtain, curtaining, darken, darken over, darkening, daze, dazzle, decline, dematerialization, departure, deprive of sight, dim, dim out, dimming, disappearance, disappearing, disguise, dispersion, dissemble, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, distract attention from, downturn, eclipsing, elimination, encloud, encompass with shadow, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, excecate, extinction, extinguish, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fake out, film, glare, gloom, gloss over, going, gouge, hide, hiding, hood, hoodwink, incrustation, keep under cover, lay on, lay over, laying on, lunar eclipse, make blind, mantle, mantling, mask, masking, melting, muffle, murk, obduce, obduction, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscuration, obscure, obscuring, obumbrate, occult, occultate, occultation, outshine, overcast, overcloud, overlay, overlaying, overshadow, overspread, overspreading, pargeting, partial eclipse, passing, plasterwork, put down, put on, put to shame, recession, screen, screening, scum, shade, shading, shadow, sheathing, shield, shielding, show up, shroud, shrouding, slump, slur over, snow- blind, solar eclipse, somber, spread over, strike blind, stuccowork, superimpose, superimposition, superpose, superposition, surpass, top, total eclipse, upholstering, upholstery, vanishing, vanishing point, varnish, veil, veiling, whitewash, wipe, wrapping |
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