51吃瓜 of the Day
More about dirigible
Dirigible is a shortening of 鈥渄irigible balloon,鈥� a translation of the French ballon dirigeable 鈥渟teerable balloon.鈥� Dirigible and dirigeable are derivatives of the Latin verb 诲墨谤颈驳别谤别 鈥渢o guide, align, straighten鈥� and the common suffix -ible 鈥渃apable of, fit for.鈥� Dirigible in its literal sense 鈥渃apable of being directed鈥� dates from the late 16th century; the sense referring to the balloon or airship dates from the late 19th century.
how is dirigible used?
With gas cells collapsing, framework breaking up, and controls out of order, the great dirigible had reared and plunged and finally had fallen 3,000 feet into the Pacific.
Being up in that tower was like being in a dirigible above the clouds.
More about moonstruck
The original sense of moonstruck, 鈥渕entally deranged, insane,鈥� first appears in Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton (1608鈥�74). Milton was astonishingly learned: he wrote poetry in Latin, Greek, and Italian; he translated Psalm 114 from Hebrew into Greek verse; he was a polemicist (or propagandist) for the English general, Puritan statesman, and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Moonstruck is probably Milton鈥檚 own creation, a translation from Greek 蝉别濒脓苍贸产濒脓迟辞蝉 鈥渕oonstruck, epileptic,鈥� a compound of 蝉别濒岣梟脓 鈥渕oon鈥� and 产濒脓迟贸蝉 鈥渟tricken, stricken with palsy,鈥� a past participle of 产谩濒濒别颈苍 鈥漷o throw, hit (with a missile).鈥� The sense of 鈥渄reamily romantic鈥� dates from the mid-19th century.
how is moonstruck used?
He wanted to see her … Otherwise he wouldn’t have waited for nearly an hour like some moonstruck schoolboy and worried all the while about the reception he would receive.
The sonata was originally given the name that’s on your music. But an author renamed it the Moonlight Sonata. I like that name very much. … Because it’s music for a moonstruck man.
More about hooly
Hooly in Scottish English is an adjective and adverb meaning 鈥渟low, cautious; slowly, cautiously.鈥� It comes from Middle English 丑艒濒测, from Old Norse 丑贸蹿濒颈驳谤 鈥渕oderate鈥� or its adverb 丑贸蹿濒颈驳补 鈥渕oderately,鈥� derived from the noun 丑贸蹿 鈥渕辞诲别谤补迟颈辞苍.” Hooly often forms part of the phrase hooly and fairly (fairly meaning 鈥済ently, softly, steadily, cautiously鈥�). Hooly entered English in the 14th century.
how is hooly used?
Just to look that their tackle does not graze on the face o’ the crag, and to let the chair down, and draw it up hoolly and fairly–we will halloo when we are ready.
Yet love is kittle and unruly, / And shou’d move tentily and hooly …