moonshine
moonshine 英 [ˈmu:nʃaɪn] 美 [ˈmunˌʃaɪn]
n. 月光；空谈
名词复数:moonshines
- Moonshine is the glowing light that comes from the moon, and it's also a common term meaning "homemade liquor." In an old-timey bluegrass song, a character might drink moonshine in the moonshine.
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- n. 月光；空谈
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1. Its glory is all moonshine.
它的辉煌全都是空谈。
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2. Food is simple: moonshine, wine, boiled potatoes, crucian carps from the local pond, melons and corn stolen from the field.
食物是简单的：月光，红酒，煮土豆，从当地鱼塘打来的鲫鱼，西瓜和地里头来的玉米。
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3. " And he said, "The moment we can demonstrate that continents are moving by a millimetre, I will consider it, but until then it's sheer moonshine, dear boy.
他回答说，“如果我们能论证大陆真的在移动，哪怕是一毫米，我也会考虑你的建议的，但在那之前一切都只不过是空谈而已，我亲爱的孩子。”
- moonshine (n.) c. 1500, "moonlight," from moon (n.) + shine (n.). In figurative use, implying "appearance without substance," from late 15c.; perhaps connected in that sense with notion of "moonshine in water" (see moonraker). Meaning "illicit liquor" is attested from 1785 (earliest reference is to that smuggled on the coasts of Kent and Sussex); moonlight also occasionally was used in this sense early 19c. As a verb from 1883. Related: Moonshiner (1860).
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