nimbus
/nim-buhs/US // ˈnɪm bəs //UK // (ˈnɪmbəs) //
云母,流苏,流云,流星
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n.名词 noun
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plural nim·bi [nim-buhbahy], /ˈnɪm bəbaɪ/, nim·bus·es.
- : Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- : a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing: The candidate was encompassed with a nimbus of fame.
- : halo.
- : the type of dense clouds or cloud mass with ragged edges, that yields rain or snow; a rain cloud.
- : U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of polar-orbiting meteorological and environmental research satellites, the last of which Nimbus 7, launched 1978, was the first satellite designed to monitor atmospheric pollutants.
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Examples
As journalists report bolder acts by the renegades, Nimbus and his friends are forced to move further from childhood innocence.
But the nimbus was not worn at all at this early period; such a criterion is therefore inadmissible.
In one example Mary wears a nimbus, a proof of comparatively late date.
In later art the hand is sometimes surrounded by a cruciform nimbus, to indicate more clearly its divine character.
This is a Saint, as he has the nimbus round his head, and from his young and beardless face it is probably St. John.
Overcast skies of heavy nimbus cloud were the rule and the air was continually charged with drifting snow.
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