英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈstɹiːm/
• 韻: -iːm

形容詞

astream (not comparable)

1. Streaming, flowing (of a liquid, object blown by wind, light, sound).

   The biker sped by, hair astream from under her helmet.

   • 1763, Christopher Smart, A Song to David, London: Elkin Mathews, 1901, p. 34,^[1]

     Glorious the northern lights astream;

   • 1892, George Meredith, “The Empty Purse” in Poems, London: Macmillan, p. 9,^[2]

     […] as a finger of smoke / Astream over woodland

   • 1968, Donald G. Payne (as Donald Gordon), The Golden Oyster, New York: William Morrow, 1968, Prologue, p. 14,^[3]

     […] oil astream from his engine, he came on till a burst of incendiaries hit him flush in the fuel tank.

   • 2010, Seamus Heaney, “Chanson d’aventure” in Human Chain, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 14,^[4]

     The charioteer […] / His left hand lopped […] / Bronze reins astream in his right,

2. Having something flowing from, down or along it; covered (with something flowing).

   Past the finish line, she doubled over panting, her hair astream with sweat.

   • 1887, Miller Hageman, “The Chippie at the Spring” in Bird-Songs Translated into Words, Brooklyn, NY: for the author, p. 72,^[5]

     There the swishing tailed cows stand with mouths all astream,

   • 1958, Samuel Beckett (translator), “Morning” by José Manuel Martínez Navarrete, in Octavio Paz (ed.), An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, p. 92,^[6]

     In an instant / the world entire is astream with joy.

   • 1967, John Farris, King Windom, New York: Trident Press, Part 1, Chapter 30, p. 372,^[7]

     […] he twisted his head sharply and stared at the dark windows astream with rain,

   • 1984, Jan Morris, “What They Had to Offer” in Journeys, Oxford University Press, p. 101,^[8]

     the causeways to Miami Beach all astream with traffic

副詞

astream (not comparable)

1. In, into, on, onto or along a stream (または other watercourse).

   I prefer to clean the fish I catch right away, while I’m astream.