gossamer
gossamer 英 [ˈgɒsəmə(r)] 美 [ˈgɑsəmə(r)]
n. 蛛丝；薄纱；小蜘蛛网 adj. 轻飘飘的；薄弱的
名词复数:gossamers
- Gossamer is something super fine and delicate — like a spider web or the material of a wedding veil.
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- n. 蛛丝；薄纱；小蜘蛛网
- adj. 轻飘飘的；薄弱的
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1. Infinitesimal details become artistic expression, a translucent tip of a fin becomes like fine gossamer of haute couture fabric.
微妙的细节成为艺术的表达，鱼鳍的透明末梢就似奢华的薄纱。
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2. Despite its grandeur, the building had a ghostly quality, with its dark, musty rooms, creaking doors, and gossamer curtains that fluttered aimlessly.
这幢建筑除了富丽堂皇以外，还有如鬼域，黑暗陈腐的居室，嘎吱作响的房门，薄纱窗帘漫无方向地飘动。
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3. Along the way, they learn a little about themselves, and about the vagaries of adolescent friendships that seem rock-solid and undying until they blow away like gossamer.
一路上，他们对自己有了一些认识，对青春友谊的变幻莫测有了一些认识，这友谊貌似坚如磐石、始终不渝，却会像薄纱一般随风而逝。
- 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.
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