glowworm
參見：glow-worm
英語
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[编辑]詞源
[编辑]繼承自中古英語 glouworm；等同於glow + worm。
名詞
[编辑]glowworm (複數 glowworms)
- 螢火蟲
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet
- 1604, William Alexander, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607,[1]
- Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine,
- That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.
- Template:RQ:Webster Malfi
- 1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Mower to the Glo-Worms”, 出自 Miscellaneous Poems[2], London: Robert Boulter，第 44 頁:
- Ye Glo-worms, whose officious Flame
To wandring Mowers shows the way,
That in the Night have lost their aim,
And after foolish Fires do stray;- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 1819, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,[3]
- Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night
- Propitious to your earth-born light!
- 1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood[4], New York: New Directions，第 1 頁:
- Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- (澳大利亞，新西蘭) 菌蚋屬昆蟲的幼蟲
