Eclipse

(noun.) one celestial body obscures another.

(verb.) 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'.

整理:李奥娜

• In all other respects Fosco, on that memorable day, was Fosco shrouded in total eclipse. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• That eclipse was Robert; she had seen him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The eclipse was, however, the prime consideration, and Edison followed the example of his colleagues in making ready. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• With the same resolve to keep up a show of conversation he said, about seven o'clock in the evening, There's an eclipse of the moon tonight. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A few years later, in 1878, Edison went to Wyoming with a group of astronomers, to test his tasimeter during an eclipse of the sun, and saw the land white to harvest. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Without him we should be good friends; but that six feet of puppyhood makes a perpetually-recurring eclipse of our friendship. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That was a falsehood, but then I was not going to let any man eclipse me on surprising adventures, merely for the want of a little invention. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Clym, the eclipsed moonlight shines upon your face with a strange foreign colour, and shows its shape as if it were cut out in gold. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They stood silently looking upon Eustacia, who, as she lay there still in death, eclipsed all her living phases. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She was twice as handsome as Becky, but the brilliancy of the latter had quite eclipsed her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Hence during a lunar eclipse the moon first enters the penumbra, then is totally eclipsed by the umbra, then emerges through the penumbra again. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Amy's dainty pen-and-ink work entirely eclipsed May's painted vases--that was one thorn. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Hosts of stars are visible to-night, though their brilliancy is eclipsed by the splendour of the moon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The theory of lunar eclipses will be understood from Fig. 1, where _S_ represents the sun, _E_ the earth, and _M_ the moon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• At Cairo about the close of the tenth century the first accurate records of eclipses were made, and tables were constructed of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Stars and planets may suffer eclipse, but the principal eclipses are those of the sun and the moon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The average individual does not bother himself much about the calculation of eclipses, or the laws which govern the movements of an erratic comet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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