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单词 moonlight
释义
moonlight
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmuːn.laɪt/us
/ˈmuːn.laɪt/
B2
thepalelightof themoon:
月光
Theyoungloverssatin the moonlight.年轻的情侣们坐在月光下。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Light
  • beam
  • brilliance
  • candlelight
  • firelight
  • fluorescence
  • helio-
  • illumination
  • incandescence
  • incident light
  • incident ray
  • infrared
  • lamplight
  • monochromatic
  • phosphorescence
  • photo
  • shininess
  • starlight
  • sun
  • sunshine
  • torchlight
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Idiom

do a moonlight flit
moonlight
verb[I]
uk
/ˈmuːn.laɪt/us
/ˈmuːn.laɪt/
moonlighted
toworkat anextrajob,especiallywithouttellingyourmainemployer:
（尤指瞒着雇主）从事第二职业，兼职
Aqualifiedteacher, he moonlightedasacabbiein theeveningstopaytherent.他是个有执教证书的教师，晚上兼职开出租车以赚钱付房租。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Work, working and the workplace
  • act assomething
  • all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
  • assignment
  • bandh
  • be at workidiom
  • grind
  • hoop
  • hot-desking
  • hotelling
  • housekeeping
  • in the line of dutyidiom
  • induction
  • industry
  • skivvy
  • slave
  • slog
  • slouch
  • spadework
  • sweat
  • undertaking
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Related word

moonlighting
(Definition ofmoonlightfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

moonlight| American Dictionary

moonlight
noun[U]
us
/ˈmunˌlɑɪt/

moonlightnoun[U](LIGHT FROM MOON)

thepalelightof themoon
moonlight
verb[I]
us
/ˈmunˌlɑɪt/
past tense and past participlemoonlighted

moonlightverb[I](WORK SECRETLY)

toworkat anadditionaljob,esp. withouttellingyourmainemployer:
Inadditionto herteachingjob, she moonlights as awaitressonweekends.
(Definition ofmoonlightfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

moonlight| Business English

moonlight
verb[I]
WORKPLACE
uk
/ˈmuːnlaɪt/us
toworkat anextrajob,especiallywithouttellingyourmainemployer:
Nearly a third ofnursesare moonlighting to makeendsmeet,accordingto areport.
moonlight as sthIoccasionallymoonlight as acaterer.

moonlighter

noun[C]
Trusting a moonlighter to doyourhouserenovationworkisrisky.
(Definition ofmoonlightfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmoonlight

moonlight
To the cluster of images associated with the water principle - phosphorescence, radium, cold white light - we can addmoonlightand luminous polyps.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, the picture accompanying the couplet shows a scholar looking into the distant mountains in themoonlight.
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He first waits for her on the roof, it is late at night, and he watches themoonlight.
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They make love, and there are repeated references to themoonlight.
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The effects ofmoonlightilluminance, temperature and wind speed on light-trap catches of moths.
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A large overlap existed between the guild members and the janissaries after the latter began tomoonlightas artisans and shopkeepers in the 17th century.
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Moving undermoonlight, they would feel the ground with their bare feet, listen to winds and use their senses to detect unusually warm air.
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As salaries have lagged behind, doctors often feel the need to "moonlight" in private practice.
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He could deliberately blockmoonlightfrom small-framed humans, depriving them of clear summer nights.
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Darkness is also implicitly connected with invisibility, which contrasts with the visibility of the waterfall inmoonlight.
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The waterfall will become radiant in themoonlight.
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Instead, there are "pools ofmoonlight," which appear to him "cold, blue, vaporous, supernatural".
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An airborne platform is being made available to view both storms above clouds and above most of the scatteredmoonlight.
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References to the rising moon andmoonlightjoin them, as follows.
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Crystal structure of rabbit phosphoglucose isomerase, a glycolytic enzyme that moonlights as neuroleukin, autocrine motility factor, and differentiation mediator.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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