Rainbow

(noun.) an illusory hope; 'chasing rainbows'.

(noun.) an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain.

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• On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Rainbow colors recombined to form white light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• White light is not a simple light, but is composed of all the colors which appear in the rainbow. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• And one could cut a pretty enough scarf out of a rainbow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Thus we see, from two simple experiments, that all the colors of the rainbow may be obtained from white light, and that these colors may be in turn recombined to produce white light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• And when we come to speak of beauty, this sea is no more to be compared to Tahoe than a meridian of longitude is to a rainbow. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Oh, father, see how red is the rainbow! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• A deep gulf, she observed, had opened between Dora and me, and Love could only span it with its rainbow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• White light is a mixture of lights of rainbow colors. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• On the contrary, this fact seemed at first to set off the dead husband in his young wife's eyes, and to be the necessary cloud to the rainbow. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But his pursuit of fortune in England proved but the search for the rainbow’s pot of gold. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• She had turned (if Penelope was to be believed) all the colours of the rainbow. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We shall remember, always, how we saw majestic Gibraltar glorified with the rich coloring of a Spanish sunset and swimming in a sea of rainbows. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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