English Dictionary

afterglow

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The glow seen in the sky after sunset. / The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling. / The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.

日本語の意味

日の入り後の空に見える残光。 / 冷却中の白熱物が発する光。 / 励起後の蛍光体が発する光。

We sat on the hill, watching the afterglow paint the clouds pink.

丘に座り、日没後の残光が雲をピンク色に染めるのを見ていた。

意味（1）

The glow seen in the sky after sunset.

That the sunset in Egypt is gorgeous, every body knows; but I, for one, was not aware that there is a renewal of beauty, some time after the sun has departed and left all grey. […] everything begins to brighten again in twenty minutes;—the hills are again purple or golden,—the sands orange,—the palms verdant,—the moonlight on the water, a pale green ripple on a lilac surface: and this after-glow continues for ten minutes, when it slowly fades away.

意味（2）

The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.

Nothing will matter to you more than that [base]ball. It will hold you so completely that when you at last file out and return to the normal world, it will stay with you like the afterglow of a flashbulb that’s gone off in your eyes.

意味（3）

The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.

意味（4）

The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.

[…] he threw down his book, stretched his legs towards the embers in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable afterglow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connections with all the rest of our existence […]

意味（5）

An afterparty.

There's an afterglow with singing after the evening worship.

afterglows （ plural ）