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词汇 example_english_shaft-of-light
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shaft of light

collocation in English

meanings of shaftand light


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shaft
noun[C]
uk /ʃɑːft/ us /ʃæft/
a pole or rod that forms the handle of a tool ...
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light
noun
uk /laɪt/ us /laɪt/
the brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to ...
See more at light


Examples of shaft of light


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There is a shaftoflight—he was acquitted.
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That was not perhaps a blinding shaftoflight.
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What a shaftoflight is such a booklet!
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They were afraid to let the shaftoflight into their own party.
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It is what he would describe as a gentle shaftoflight.
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Sometimes a shaftoflight strikes where it is least expected.
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There was a tiny shaftoflight in my noble friend's reply.
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I am a shaftoflight split through a prism.
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It is right that a shaftoflight, albeit somewhat dim, should shine again on the subject.
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In all this gloom and misery, there is in the world one shaftoflight and peace.
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He talked about "a shaftoflight ", and was referring to the immediate conversion of a persecutor of the church.
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Those reports cast a shaftoflight through the fog of misconception, which so often surrounds this subject.
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My decimal knowledge is not sufficient to transfer that into simple measure, but it throws a little shaftoflight, at least, on this matter.
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For obvious reasons, a short debate of this character can throw only a mere shaftoflight upon the financial problems that confront local government.
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A shaftoflight illuminates the floor in front of him.
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The result is an intense shaftoflight that can not be easily controlled or modified.
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A skylight in the ceiling allowed a natural shaftoflight to fall on the mosaic.
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One reads this rather pedestrian and solemn language, but every now and then a shaftoflight is thrown upon the reality of what our prisons are.
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Each pixel on the image plane therefore corresponds to a shaftoflight from the original scene.
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With a light spectrum, coming out of the prism, one sees a shaftoflight surrounded by dark.
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Her body is illuminated and given sculptural form by a strong shaftoflight coming from the left.
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The scene below was illuminated by a pale shaftoflight and, in numbed silence, the officer watched the chaplain as he signalled to a small party of frightened men.
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Often, the most glittering insight into an age can come almost accidentally from a side shaftoflight on a work of art or from books or pieces of music.
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Legend holds a miraculous shaftoflight illuminated the spot where her daughter was, and allowed her to be rescued by neighbors.
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