And the truth is that I had one eye on an ancient and timeless clock, hung uselessly in heaven; whose very name has passed into a figure for such bemused folly. In the true sense of an ancient phrase, I was moonstruck. A lunar landscape a scene of winter moonlight had inexplicably got in between me and all other scenes. If any one had asked me I could not have said what it was; I cannot say now. Nothing had occurred to me; except the breakdown of a hired motor on the ridge of a hill. It was not an adventure; it was a vision.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
The following is the last letter I received from him:
COLLINGWOOD, March 10, 1871. "MY DEAR SIR--A great many thanks for the opportunity of seeing your most exquisite photographs from models of lunar mountains. I hope you will publish them. They will create quite an electric sensation. Would not one or two specimens of the apparently nonvolcanic mountain ranges, bordering on the great plains, add to the interest? Excuse my writing more, as I pen this lying on my back in bed, to which a fierce attack of bronchitis condemns me. With best regards to Mrs. Nasmyth, believe me yours very truly,
" J.英文原著 · 《An Autobiography》
The chief interest which attaches to the name of Flamsteed arises from the fact that he was the first of the illustrious series of Astronomers Royal who have presided over Greenwich Observatory. In that capacity Flamsteed was able to render material assistance to Newton by providing him with the observations which his lunar theory required.英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
<83.2> It can scarcely be requisite to mention that Lovelace refers to the gradual evanescence of the moon before the growing daylight. It is well known that the lunar orb is, at certain times, visible sometime even after sunrise.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
--But I have a taste for the homologies, I want to go deeply into the subject of embryology, I want to analyze the protonihilates precipitated from pigeon's milk by the action of the lunar spectrum,- shall I not follow my star,--shall I not obey my instinct,--shall I not give myself to the lofty pursuits of science for its own sake?英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
But we're celebrating Thanksgiving in December because he's lunar.美剧 · 《Friends》
When he was leaving the moon, he reached down and wrote his daughter's initials into the lunar surface.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
You mean your client who purchased $10 million In Lunardi Pharmaceuticals and then a day later word of their FDA approval got out and the stock shot up to $30 million?美剧 · 《Suits》
She insists that she had a different sheet on the day she bought Lunardi.美剧 · 《Suits》