Word of the Day : March 9, 2021

luminary

专家；权威；有影响的人物

noun LOO-muh-nair-ee

Definition

1 : a person of prominence or brilliant achievement

杰出的人或有杰出成就的人

2 : a body that gives light; especially : one of the celestial bodies

发光体：特别是：天体

Examples

"[Lloyd] Richards, a luminary who, with the original production of A Raisin in the Sun, became the first Black director to stage a Broadway play, emphasized dramaturgy." — Abigail Aguirre, Vogue, January 2021

凭借原创a Raisin in the Sun，Lloyd Richards成为第一位登上百老汇舞台的黑人导演，强调戏剧性的黑人导演。”

"As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west. While it hung there, the moon rose in the east, as big as a cart-wheel, pale silver and streaked with rose colour, thin as a bubble or a ghost-moon. For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world." — Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918

当我们穿过田野回家的时候，太阳落下了，像颗巨大的金球躺在西方的低处。月亮从东方升起，大得像车轮，淡银色点缀有玫瑰色，薄得像泡泡，薄得像鬼月。到五分，或许十分，这两儿天体在地平线上相遇了，站于世界的两端。

Did You Know?

Allow us to shed some light on luminary. It came to English by way of Anglo-French and Late Latin, and it traces back to the Latin word lumen, meaning "light." Other lumen descendants in English include illuminate ("to light up"), luminous ("emitting light") and phillumenist ("one who collects matchbooks or matchbox labels"). Luminary has been shining its light in English since the 15th century.

让我们来谈谈"luminary"吧。它通过盎格鲁-法国和拉丁晚期传入英语，可以追溯到拉丁语lumen，意思是“light 「光」”。lumen在英语中的其他派生词包括illuminate(to light up「照亮」)、luminous(emitting light「发射光」)和phillumenist(one who collects matchbooks or matchbox labels「收集火柴盒或收集火柴盒商标」)。自15世纪以来，Luminary一直用于“发光”在英语中。

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