Moon

(noun.) any natural satellite of a planet; 'Jupiter has sixteen moons'.

(noun.) the natural satellite of the Earth; 'the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers'; 'men first stepped on the moon in 1969'.

(noun.) any object resembling a moon; 'he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light'; 'the clock had a moon that showed various phases'.

(noun.) United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920).

(verb.) expose one's buttocks to; 'moon the audience'.

(verb.) be idle in a listless or dreamy way.

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• She looks; the moon is up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He dropped the curtains over the broad window and regal moon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The moon is rising, and where she sits there is a little stream of cold pale light, in which her head is seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He saw me; for the moon had opened a blue field in the sky, and rode in it watery bright: he took his hat off, and waved it round his head. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We had the phenomenon of a full moon located just in the same spot in the heavens at the same hour every night. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The ceremony was in honour of the god of the Moon; and it was to be held at night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It may be rendered into English thus: May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half! 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Beneath the brilliant light of Mars' two glorious moons the whole scene presented itself in vivid distinctness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Probably man began reckoning time by the clock of the full and new moons. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The earliest recorded reckoning is by moons and by generations of men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is, says Chadband, the ray of rays, the sun of suns, the moon of moons, the star of stars. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To think that a man should be so silly as to go mooning about like that for a girl's glove! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He was mooning about, I suppose, taking liberties with people's chins; but there he was, somehow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• To see him mooning along to that time of life, laying down nothing by the way and picking up nothing by the way, is delightful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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