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sunwise

/suhn-wahyz/US // ˈsʌnˌwaɪz //UK // (ˈsʌnˌwaɪz) //

阳光明媚,阳光,明智,聪明

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in the direction of the sun's apparent daily motion.
    • : in a clockwise direction.

Examples

  • They drank the water and then moved round the well deasil (sunwise), and before departing left an offering on the stone.

  • This sunwise turn is practised in other cases, as in sickness or accident.

  • He danced in a sunwise circle around them, from east to south to west to north, bobbing his head and singing.

  • Wolf Paw stared, as White Bear passed his medicine stick three times in a sunwise circle over the bleeding shoulder.

  • That was the wrong way round—the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.