gossamer

• n. 蛛丝；薄纱；小蜘蛛网
• adj. 轻飘飘的；薄弱的

gos, 鹅。-samer, 来自summer的变体，指深秋的短暂的阳气回升时节，小阳春。因这个时候常会出现形似鹅毛的蛛丝，或因这个时节为吃鹅正当令而得名。后指一种丝织品。

1. a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

2. filaments from a cobweb

gossamer

gossamer: [14] It would be pleasant to think that gossamer, originally ‘fine cobwebs’, is a descendant of an earlier goose-summer, but unfortunately there is not enough evidence to make this more than a conjecture. The theory goes as follows: mid-autumn is a time when geese for the table are plentiful (November was once known as gänsemonat ‘geese-month’ in German), and so a warm period around then might have been termed goose-summer (we now call it an Indian summer); the silken filaments of gossamer are most commonly observed floating in the air on such warm autumnal days; and so the spiders’ webs were christened with the name of the season.

gossamer (n.)

c. 1300, "filmy substance (actually spider threads) found in fields of stubble in late fall," apparently from gos "goose" (see goose (n.)) + sumer "summer" (see summer (n.)). Not found in Old English. The reference might be to a fancied resemblance of the silk to goose down, or more likely it is shifted from an original sense of "late fall; Indian summer" because geese are in season then. Compare Swedish equivalent sommartrad "summer thread," Dutch zommerdraden (plural). The German equivalent mädchensommer (literally "girls' summer") also has a sense of "Indian summer," and there was a Scottish go-summer "period of summer-like weather in late autumn" (1640s, folk-etymologized as if from go). Thus the English word originally might have referred to a warm spell in autumn before being transferred to a phenomenon especially noticeable then. Compare obsolete Scottish go-summer "period of summer-like weather in late autumn." Meaning "anything light or flimsy" is from c. 1400; as a type of gauze used for veils, 1837. The adjective sense "filmy, light as gossamer" is attested from 1802.

the gossamer wings of a dragonfly

薄如轻纱的蜻蜓翅膀

牛津词典

a gown of gossamer silk

丝绸女裙服

牛津词典

...the daring gossamer dresses of sheer black lace.

完全以黑色蕾丝为材质的样式大胆的轻薄衣裙

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Having seen that, the Buddha sent a spider a thread gossamer down to the Unintermittent Hells.

看到这里, 佛陀便派一只蜘蛛吐一条长长的丝,垂到无间地狱去.

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The three subtle smiles , drifting in the air towards each other like gossamer, became interwoven.

这同样微妙的神情, 好似游丝一般,飘飘漾漾的合了拢来, 绾在一起.

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Binding wire yarn Gossamer Threads, flaxen thread, etrieve and etc.

装订用线有蜡线 、 丝线 、 麻线、合成纤维线等.

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His arms, holding my arms up gently and firmly, made me feel gossamer.

他的双臂坚定而温柔地托起我的胳膊, 使我感到轻飘飘的.

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They quickly stripped me of my clothes and bound me a mummy in a gossamer web.

他们飞快地扒了我的衣服,把我绑得像个蜘蛛网里的木乃伊.

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Gossamer is floating in calm air.

空中飘浮着游丝.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

A lover may bestride the gossamer idles in the wanton summer air, and yet not fall.

恋爱中人可以踩在夏空中迎风飘荡的蛛丝上, 而不致摔落.

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They wear sneakers with gossamer wings. They a deal on dry cleaning.

他们穿着带有轻盈的翅膀的运动鞋, 旅尘满身的他们不得不时常干洗行头,保持体面.

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Gossamer Threads is the earliest use of a set of books.

丝线是我国历史上最早使用的一种书籍订缝材料.

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What traces have I left? Have I ever left any gossamer traces?

我留着些什么痕迹 呢 ?我何曾留着像游丝样的痕迹 呢 ?

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This is gossamer season.

这是游丝的季节.

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A male forest chaser dragonfly displays its gossamer wings in Taiwan.

台湾一只雄性的森林猎者蜻蜓展示它丝网般的翅膀.

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His confidence is but a gossamer thread and his trust is a spider's web.

他的依靠好似游丝,他的凭借有如蛛网.

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Have I ever left behind any gossamer traces at all?

我何曾留着象游丝样的痕迹 呢 ?

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Like gossamer you float and land on pavilions.

你像蛛丝一样飘落在亭阁上.

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Kandata eagerly grabbed the gossamer and started to pull himself up.

甘德塔急忙抓住蜘蛛丝开始往上爬.

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The pig came to God again, and this time, God saw his spirit a gossamer breath.

猪又到了上帝那里, 这次, 上帝看到猪的灵魂是轻飘飘的一口气.

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The prince helped the princess, who was still in her delightful gossamer gown.

王子搀扶着仍穿著那套美丽薄纱晚礼服的公主。

辞典例句

a gown of gossamer silk

丝绸女裙服

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》