形容词 · 1
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形容词派生自中古英語 bright (“光亮的，明亮的；强烈的；闪亮的；辉煌的；（指人）美丽的，面色红润的；极佳的；清晰的；（指视觉）明晰的；（比喻义）无罪过的；开明的”) [以及其他形式]，源自古英語 bryht、breht (诺森伯兰)，字母换位自byrht (盎格鲁)、beorht (西萨克逊)、berht (“明晰的”) [以及其他形式]，源自原始西日耳曼語 *berht，源自原始日耳曼語 *berhtaz (“明亮的”)，最终源自原始印歐語 *bʰerHǵ- (“照，使...变白”)。 名词派生自中古英語 bright (“光亮，闪亮；阳光；光”)，源自bright (形容词)：见上文。 英语词的同源词包括阿爾巴尼亞語 bardhë (“白的”)、荷蘭語 brecht (用于人名)、冰島語 bjartur (“明亮的”)、立陶宛語 brekšta (“破晓”)、中古愛爾蘭語 brafad (“眨眼”)、挪威語 bjart (“光亮的，明晰的”)、波斯語 برازیدن (barâzidan，“美化；适宜于”)、北盧里語 بڵێز (bełız，“火焰”) 俄語 бре́зжить (brézžitʹ，“破晓；发微光；（比喻义，指希望，思想等）出现，显现”)、梵語 भ्राजते (bhrājate)、低地蘇格蘭語 bricht (“明亮的”)、威爾士語 berth (“美丽的”) (弃用)。
读音
- /bɹaɪt/
释义
明亮的，发光的，闪耀的，照耀的；炫目的
The sky was remarkably bright and blue on that beautiful summer day.
夏天里的那天，蓝色的天空格外的闪耀夺目。
Where the bright Seraphim in burning row / Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow; / And the Cherubick hoſt in thouſand quires / Touch their immortal Harps of golden wires, […]
1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 22:Thee Father firſt they ſung Omnipotent, / […] that brighteſt Seraphim / Approach not, but with both their wings veil thir eyes.
1667，John Milton，「Book III」，收錄於Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books，London： […] [Samuel Simmons], […]，→OCLC；再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]，London：Basil Montagu Pickering […]，1873，→OCLC，372 and 381–382行：There were very few people about, and though the sun was bright, and the air clear and fresh, the big, grim-looking waves, that seemed dark themselves because the foam that topped them was like snow, forced themselves in through the narrow mouth of the harbour—like a bullying man going through a crowd.
1897, Bram Stoker, “Cutting from ‘The Dailygraph,’ 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal.)”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, page 95:亮的，强烈的
Could you please dim the light? It’s far too bright.
能把灯调暗点吗？太亮了。
反光而耀眼的，有光泽的
明亮的
It was said that the Irish whom [Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of] Feversham had let loose were marching on London and massacring every man, woman, and child on the road. At one in the morning the drums of the militia beat to arms. […] Before two the capital wore a face of stern preparedness which might well have daunted a real enemy, if such an enemy had been approaching. Candles were blazing at all the windows. The public places were as bright as at noonday.
1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 564:晴朗的
[H]e felt the influence of the bright sky, and looked up smiling into its deep unfathomable blue.
1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter 77, page 392:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 6:显然的，显眼的
They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:鲜亮的，鲜艳的
Her step was quick; her eye piercing, and of the brightest blue; […]
1838 May, L. M., “The West Fifty Years Since”, in T[homas] W[illis] White, editor, The Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts, volume IV, number V, Richmond, Va.: T. W. White, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 308, column 1:颜色鲜艳的，多彩的
The orange and blue walls of the sitting room were much brighter than the dull grey walls of the kitchen.
客厅的橙色蓝色相间的墙壁比厨房的单调灰色的墙鲜艳多了。
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
1897年12月 (標示為1898年)，温斯顿·丘吉尔，第II章，收錄於The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約：The Macmillan Company；倫敦：麥米倫出版公司，→OCLC，15頁：清晰的，嘹亮的，尖锐的
容易造成尖锐回音的
明显的，强烈的
透明的，澄明的；纯净的，无杂质的； 纯净的，无悬浮物的，优质的
From […] the brighteſt Wines / He'd turn abhorrent.
1728, [James] Thomson, Spring: A Poem, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar and G[eorge] Strahan, →OCLC, page 10:辉煌的，荣耀的，显赫的
And 'twas the worſt, if not the only ſtain, / I'th' brighteſt Annals of a Female Reign.
1681, Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake, London: […] Joanna Brome, […], →OCLC, page 16:高兴的，开心的；乐观的
I woke up today feeling so bright that I decided to have a little dance.
今天起床心情特别好，好到我跳了支舞。
Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit [Bilbo Baggins] was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare[…]。
1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “On the Doorstep”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, 3rd edition, London: Unwin Books, George Allen & Unwin, published 1966 (1970 printing), →ISBN, page 191:高兴的，阳光的，灿烂的
Bright eyes / Burning like fire / Bright eyes / How can you close and fail? / How can the light that burned so brightly / Suddenly burn so pale? / Bright eyes
1978年 10月19日，Mike Batt，「Bright Eyes」，收錄於Fate for Breakfast，由 Art Garfunkel，19 January 1979 出版：快活的，生机勃勃的
Come on: / Gentle my Lord, ſleeke o're your rugged Lookes, / Be bright and Iouiall among your Gueſts to Night.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:快乐的，繁荣昌盛的
She has a bright future ahead.
她前途无量。
Things are going great, and they're only getting better / I'm doing all right, getting good grades / The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
1986，Pat MacDonald，「The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades」，收錄於Greetings from Timbuk3，由 Timbuk3：光明的，好的
If he trains hard, his chances of winning the competition are bright.
他努力训练的话就很有希望能赢得那场竞赛。
巧妙的，机智的，聪明的
机智的，聪明的
She’s very bright. She was able to solve the problem without my help.
她很聪明，不需要我帮忙就解决了那个问题。
―Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh, Got stuck twice in the junior at the Christian Brothers.
1922 February，James Joyce，「[Episode 16: Eumaeus]」，收錄於Ulysses，Paris：Shakespeare and Company, […]，→OCLC，「part III [Nostos]」，573頁：Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds: An explosion of start-ups is changing finance for the better”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2013:视力好的，锐利的
显然的
[T]he Queriſt muſt not proceed too ſwiftly towards the Determination of his Point propos'd, that he may with more Eaſe, with brighter Evidence, and with ſurer Succeſs draw the Learner on to aſſent to thoſe Principles ſtep by ſtep, from whence the final Concluſion will naturally ariſe.
1741，I[saac] Watts，「The Socratical Way of Disputation」，收錄於The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […]，London： […] James Brackstone, […]，→OCLC，「paragraph V」，172頁：轻快的，愉快的
无防腐蚀覆盖层的
词形与写法（2）
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|---|---|
| brighter | comparative | |
| brightest | superlative |