sunshotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnʃɒt/

形容詞

sunshot (comparative more sunshot, superlative most sunshot)

1. (poetic) Shot through with sunlight.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 91:

     Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.

   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 41:

     Another revelation of impuberal softness […] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.

形容詞

sun-shot (comparative more sun-shot, superlative most sun-shot)

1. Alternative form of sunshot
   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence:

     The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned.

   • 1997, Robert Cohen, The Here and Now, page 15:

     To divert me I had only the Times, an article I was editing, and my own reflection, pensive and sleepy, framed in the sun-shot window.

   • 2010, John Fox Jr, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine:

     “You set right down now, baby,” he said, and he made a pretence of having something to do inside the mill, while June watched the creaking old wheel dropping the sun-shot sparkling water into the swift sluice, but hardly seeing it at all.