moonshine

FREQ #18769

n. 月光, 大话, 非法酿制的酒

发音

其它 /ˈmuːnʃaɪn/

词形变化

moonshines 复数 moonshines moonshined moonshines 三单 moonshining moonshining 现在分词 moonshined 过去式 moonshined 过去分词

别名

moon-shine

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The light of the moon.

    可数 不可数

    […] O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry […]

  2. 2.

    High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

    可数 非正式 不可数

    They watered down the moonshine.

  3. 3.

    Smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.

    私酿酒

    私酒

    英国 古体 可数 方言 不可数
  4. 4.

    Nonsense.

    非正式 不可数 可数

    He was talking moonshine.

  5. 5.

    A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.

    不可数 数学 可数
  6. 6.

    A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.

    美国 可数 不可数 烹饪
  7. 7.

    A month.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.

    不及物

    His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.

  2. 2.

    To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

moon moonlight bootleg corn liquor

上位词 4

light corn corn whiskey visible light

部分词 1

moonbeam
动词

上位词 3

extract distill distil

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English mone schyne, mone-schyne, moone shone; equivalent to moon + shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from moonshiner.

来源：wiktionary