laurence
劳伦斯,劳伦,刘易斯
Definitions
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- : Physics. a shimmering effect seen over a hot surface, such as a pavement or roadway, on a clear and calm day, caused by the irregular refraction of light.Compare scintillation.
Examples
Subplots begin to pile atop one another as Laurence dodges one potential scandal and gets out ahead of another, using it to a publicity advantage.
His first theater role was as Friar Laurence in a UVA production of Romeo and Juliet.
Laurence Fishburne is the titular character in the 1995 film of Othello.
Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.
My editor, the renowned Laurence Gandar, called me to his office to be questioned.
He's a live wire, Laurence: very, very intelligent and he can keep a whole unit bubbling along.
John Laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.
Laurence de Cinq-Cygne struggled valiantly against a cunning and redoubtable police-agency, the soul of which was Corentin.
Laurence Corsini was elected pope by the conclave, after it had sat four months.
An old and trusted servant, thoroughly devoted to his mistress, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, whose fortunes he had always followed.
She was conscious of the notion expressed by Friar Laurence: "These violent delights have violent ends."