Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 7, 2012
rutilant \ROOT-l-uhnt\, adjective:
Glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
He had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse's button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems.
-- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
It was like the show-piece that is reserved for the conclusion of a fete, the huge bouquet of gold and crimson, as if Paris were burning like a forest of old oaks and soaring heavenward in a rutilant cloud of sparks and flame.
-- Émile Zola, The Downfall
Why flashed through space a sudden and extraordinary splendor, intenser than the rutilant fulgurations of the aurora borealis, lighting up the whole heavens instantaneously, and for a moment eclipsing every star of every magnitude?
-- Jules Verne, To The Sun?
Rutilant is from the Latin word rutilāns, meaning "having a reddish color or glow."
rutilant\根-L-uhnt\，形容詞：
灼熱或紅潤或金色的光芒，閃閃發光。
他裸露的膝蓋，一具屍體的按鈕鼻子，很白，很酸軟，rutilant寶石裝飾的非常潮濕的手圓圓的頭。
- 納博科夫，ADA，或熱情：家庭紀事
這是像展示片，是一個祭祀的結論，金色和深紅色的巨大花束，巴黎彷彿都在燃燒一樣的老橡樹林和飛漲的火花和火焰rutilant雲仰天保留。
- 左拉的倒台
為什麼閃過空間突然異彩更加劇烈比北極光rutilant fulgurations的，照亮了整個天空瞬間，和每一個巨大的明星黯然失色每一刻嗎？
- 儒勒·凡爾納，在陽光下？
rutilant是從拉丁詞rutilāns，意思是“有顏色偏紅或發光。”
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