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词汇 moonlight
释义 moonlight
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈmuːn.laɪt/ us /ˈmuːn.laɪt/
B2
the pale light of the moon: 月光
The young lovers sat in the moonlight.年轻的情侣们坐在月光下。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Light
backlight
backlighting
beam
brilliance
candlelight
coruscation
fluorescence
helio-
illumination
infrared
moonbeam
opalescence
phosphene
phosphorescence
photo
shininess
starlight
sun
sunshine
torchlight

Idiom


do a moonlight flit
moonlight
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈmuːn.laɪt/ us /ˈmuːn.laɪt/moonlighted
to work at an extra job, especially without telling your main employer: (尤指瞒着雇主)从事第二职业,兼职
A qualified teacher, he moonlighted as a cabbie in the evenings to pay the rent.他是个有执教证书的教师,晚上兼职开出租车以赚钱付房租。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Work, working and the workplace
act as something
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
assignment
bandh
be at workidiom
grind
hoop
hotelling
housekeeping
in the line of dutyidiom
induction
industry
job
skivvy
slave
slog
slouch
spadework
sweat
undertaking

Related word


moonlighting

moonlight | American Dictionary


moonlight
noun[ U ]
us/ˈmunˌlɑɪt/

moonlightnoun[U] (LIGHT FROM MOON)


the pale light of the moon
moonlight
verb[ I ]
us/ˈmunˌlɑɪt/past tense and past participlemoonlighted

moonlightverb[I] (WORK SECRETLY)


to work at an additional job, esp. without telling your main employer:
In addition to her teaching job, she moonlights as a waitress on weekends.

moonlight | Business English


moonlight
verb[ I ]
 WORKPLACEuk /ˈmuːnlaɪt/us
to work at an extra job, especially without telling your main employer:
Nearly a third of nurses are moonlighting to make ends meet, according to a report.
moonlight as sthI occasionally moonlight as a caterer.

moonlighter


noun[ C ]
Trusting a moonlighter to do your house renovation work is risky.

Examples of moonlight


moonlight
Crystal structure of rabbit phosphoglucose isomerase, a glycolytic enzyme that moonlights as neuroleukin, autocrine motility factor, and differentiation mediator.
We should take one step back and ensure that there is no moonlighting.
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How much money does he make there and how much does he make from his moonlighting at all the newspapers?
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We have just learned of his acquaintance with moonlighting unemployed and with unemployed women with very wealthy husbands.
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I did not know what the moonlighting was; perhaps we can have elucidation as the evening progresses.
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There are plenty of those in his subsequent moonlighting career as well.
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Presumably, if those nurses stopped moonlighting, the staffing crisis in our hospitals would be even worse.
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Is he or is he not prepared to ban moonlighting?
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Moreover, there is evidence that some firms are moonlighting to enjoy the benefits of rental relaxation.
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The nonsense is that we are not trying to outlaw moonlighting, which is widespread throughout the community.
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Many people remain unemployed and combine this situation with moonlighting, because wages are too low.
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What we need is to cut out all the moonlighting.
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They still have nice little earnings from moonlighting.
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Many families are doing "moonlights", families who have been forced to do so through debts, often incurred by bad domestic management.
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I do not know what sort of moonlighting that is.
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