lightning
lightning 英 [ˈlaɪtnɪŋ] 美 [ˈlaɪtnɪŋ]
n. 闪电
名词复数:lightnings
- When you see sudden bright flashes of light in the sky, you're seeing lightning, the release of electricity between clouds or the ground.
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- n. 闪电
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1. a flash of lightning
一道闪电
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2. a violent storm with thunder and lightning
夹着雷鸣电闪的暴风雨
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3. Lightning strikes caused fires.
雷击造成了火灾。
- lightning (n.) visible discharge of energy between cloud and cloud or cloud and ground, late Old English, "lightning, flash of lightning," verbal noun from lightnen "make bright," or else an extended form of Old English lihting, from leht (see light (n.)). The Old English word also meant "dawn, daybreak," and in Middle English "light of the sun, intense brightness, brilliance; the radiance of Christ." Another Middle English word for it was leven (mid-13c.), of uncertain origin, with no apparent source in Old English. (Old English had ligetung "lightning," from liget "lightning, flash of lightning." "Lightning" also was a specialized sense of lihting "lighting" and beorhtnes "brightness.")
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