英和和英

語源

From side +‎ light.

名詞

sidelight (plural sidelights)

1. A light found at the side of something; especially of a vehicle.

   If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on.

   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:

     After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.

2. A window found at one or both sides of a door.
3. A piece of incidental information that helps one understand a subject.
   • 1957 December, “Railway Literature: Southern Electric. By G. T. Moody”, in Railway Magazine, page 892:

     A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history.

   • 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: The Flying Scotsman 1862-1962. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Allen & Unwin. 6s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:

     He is well up to form when dealing with passenger stock, notably Victorian and Edwardian and on this and on East Coast motive power he throws many sidelights.

参照

• “sidelight”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.