Definition of moon in English:

moon

noun muːnmun

1The natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
月球，月亮
there was no moon, but a sky sparkling with brilliant stars
the first man on the moon
Example sentencesExamples
- At the top of the page was a sketch of the phases the moon went through each month.
- I look out over the docks again and watch the bright moon in the sky.
- The Sun is in fact very much larger than the Moon, but it is also very much further away.
- He looked to the sky, seeing a pale full moon visible behind a patch of clouds.
- The 15th day of the eighth month, when the moon is round and clear, is the middle of autumn.
- Finally, the moon has been judged to be the cause of madness, the term ‘lunacy’ deriving from the Latin luna, meaning moon.
- The stars are there and of course with the naked eye the Moon is also often visible.
- There was no sign of the Moon but the odd star managed to look down through gaps in the belts of cloud.
- The moon came up four hours ago, huge and the colour of a malfunctioning striplight on an office ceiling.
- We sat there talking under the stars until the Moon slipped beneath the circle of trees.
- The waxing Moon was three-quarters full and too high and too far to the south to shine into the kitchen.
- If you calculate back a billion and a half years ago, the moon would have been in direct contact with the earth.
- Gravity pulls the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth, and it causes tides.
- It also gives a method to determine longitude based on eclipses of the Moon.
- The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite.
- Eclipses of the sun and the moon occur every six months.
- Jews count the months by the moon; western civilization patterns its calendar after the sun.
- The nation is remembering the moment a human being first set foot on the moon 35 years ago.
- The force exerted by the Moon on the Earth is having a similar effect on the Earth's rotation.
- The night was freezing cold, and the full moon was shining through the window.
Synonyms
satellite
1. 1.1 A natural satellite of any planet.
  卫星
  Titan, Saturn's largest moon
  Example sentencesExamples
  The satellites or the two moons of Mars - Phobos and Deimos - are seen revolving around it.
  Two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered orbiting Mars in 1877.
  Once it enters orbit, it will begin a four-year scientific tour of the planet and its moons.
  He discovered moons orbiting Jupiter.
  Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past.
  Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to release a probe that will travel to one of the planet's moons, Titan.
  It happens that Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, which are captured asteroids orbiting very close to that planet.
  Telescopes on the ground, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, have also discovered small moons around these planets.
  Over many millions of years, the matter within our solar system has coalesced into many moons, nine planets and the star that we call the sun.
  The main objective is to enhance our understanding of the Solar System by exploring the planets, their moons, and small bodies, such as comets and asteroids.
  Spacecraft have flown by every major planet, and most of their important moons, in the solar system.
  As the science of robotics advances, the search for resources and signs of life on distant planets and moons will be carried out increasingly by rovers and other robots.
  Observational astronomers use telescopes, on Earth and in space, to study objects ranging from planets and moons to distant galaxies.
  Of all the moons circling all the planets in the solar system, only Saturn's moon, Titan, is known to have an atmosphere.
  He discovered moons orbiting the planet Jupiter.
  The moons of the outer planets in the solar system are also rich with various kinds of ices.
  He also discovered four moons: Titania and Oberon at Uranus, and Enceladus and Mimas at Saturn.
  Outer space was a vivacious place, filled with planets and stars, moons and black holes, supernovas and asteroid belts.
  Modern interplanetary spacecraft explore their target planets and moons with the aid of robots, and these robots are also becoming very small.
  But what about the geologies of the nine planets and over sixty moons of the solar system?
  Synonyms
  satellite
2. 1.2humorous, literary A month.
  〈诗/文或幽默〉月份
  that wonderful night four moons ago
  四个月前的那个美好夜晚。
  I got my first laser printer many moons ago
  Example sentencesExamples
  Or would they sing that song that they did sing together all those moons ago.
  Many moons ago I wrote about the trials and tribulations of shooting a commercial calendar.
  Many moons ago it seems now, dental treatment and glasses were all free to everyone but now unless ur still at school or are unemployed you have to pay for it!
  The fight from a few moons ago had gained me some respect, if not that much.
  Many moons ago I had a landlady who claimed to remember the days when the road through Bilsdale was no more than a rough track.
  So other than the lower interest rates, why are we clamouring to buy what we shunned just a few moons ago?
  Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village.
  Many moons ago, I had a friend who repaired electronics for a living.
  Many moons ago, actually about 24 years to the day, I was very nearly run down by a bus.
  Many moons ago, I worked for a business association.
  Tendron had heard all about the incident with Sir Jacob Swift - was it only six moons ago?
  Regulars will recall that many a moon ago we had a cryptic clue competition which was won by a gentleman caller called Keir.
  Many moons ago, a Spanish football team travelled to the Olympic Games in Belgium, where they acquitted themselves well, winning many fans.
  She had gotten cut on the thigh in a practice session, but that had been six moons ago and the wound had not been so deep as to not be able to heal quickly and fully.
  Synonyms
  a long time ago, ages ago, years ago
  British informal donkey's years ago, yonks ago
  South African before the rinderpest
3. 1.3the moon Anything that one could desire.
  〈喻〉渴望之物
  you must know he'd give you the moon
  你应该知道他会给我们每个人摘下月亮。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Politicians and lovers are both inclined to offer you the moon, but both might eventually do nothing more than use you and leave you for scrap.
  I wouldn't lay down on that thing even if you promised me the moon.
  They want someone who can give you the moon if you desired it, it's what I want for you, what you deserve.

The moon orbits the earth in a period of 27.32 days, going through a series of phases from new moon to full moon and back again during that time. Its average distance from the earth is some 384,000 km and it is 3,476 km in diameter. The bright and dark features which outline the face of ‘the Man in the Moon’ are highland and lowland regions, the former heavily pockmarked by craters due to the impact of meteorites. The moon has no atmosphere, and the same side is always presented to the earth

verb muːnmun

1no object, with adverbial Behave or move in a listless and aimless manner.
懒散度日；浪荡
I don't want her mooning about in the morning
我不想让她浪荡一上午。
Example sentencesExamples
- She is still mooning about in that motel room, but she does that you know.
- And she's mooning around with old love-letters instead of putting herself to good use.
- His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers.
- I spent at least a year mooning around before Darren had told me to snap out of it.
- And yep, you got it right, up till now, he was still mooning around because of Sandara.
Synonyms
waste time, fiddle, loaf, idle, mope, drift, stooge around
British informal mooch
North American informal lollygag, bat
1. 1.1 Act in a dreamily infatuated manner.
  出神；呆视
  Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy
  蒂莫西像小学生那样呆视着她。
  Example sentencesExamples
  My best friend's oblivious to everything, mooning over some guy.
  In 1993, she hung around tennis courts mooning after Andre Agassi.
  Kim's second-best friend Sharon is still mooning over Shane.
  Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way.
  She turns up on a transfer, starts acing every assignment, acts modest about it and never seems to do any extra work, and you're playing racquetball with her and mooning after her whenever she heads off on a date with Donnie.
  Just when Michele pledged to get on with her life and stop mooning for her mechanical engineer, out of the blue he asked her out for dinner and proposed.
  I was getting sick of them mooning over each other.
  Anne is now officially ‘loved up’ with the bloke she has been mooning over for 4 years.
  Haley lets out a small sigh, ‘What you just described would be mooning or pining, not to mention pathetic.’
  Why was he mooning over a girl that he hardly knew?
  However he just couldn't help spending a lot of time mooning over the situation.
  The afternoon was their own, and most soldiers spent their free time mooning over the girl at the tavern.
  She would spend most of the night mooning over Jake anyway.
  I was thinking of getting engaged to Barry, but I saw less and less of him and mooned over John.
  He felt like one of those idiots in a chick flick mooning over the movie's lead.
  He, of course, was soaking it all in and enjoying the way they mooned over him.
  She finally quit mooning over Terrie, and she and John are now going steady.
  I don't want my employees looking like lovesick schoolgirls mooning over a cute hunk.
  It's kinda hard when you see your husband mooning over a stupid blonde.
  Including spending most of my teenage years mooning over a guy who never even knew my name.
  Synonyms
  mope, pine, languish, brood, daydream, fantasize, be in a reverie, be in a brown study
2informal no object Expose one's buttocks to someone in order to insult or amuse them.
〈非正式〉表示侮辱或逗笑对…亮光屁股
the crew dropped their trousers and mooned at them
with object Dan had whipped round, bent over, and mooned the crowd
Example sentencesExamples
- They're swinging about like monkeys, roaring up and down the aisles and I was even mooned at once.
- No, my real issue with them is that I am tired of getting inadvertently mooned by complete strangers.
- He was touring 300 nights of the year, playing these wild shows: getting drunk, mooning the audience and shooting guns.
- On Nov.4, Valleyfield police reported that a 19-year-old boy at a party in a mall parking lot had approached their car and mooned them.
- Last time she was here, she says, she and her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, dropped their trousers on the ride and mooned the people in the car behind them.
- He famously mooned a referee, threw a shoe at a baseline judge who kept calling foot faults and changed both his shirt and his shorts on court during a match.
- We do not like some of the things they do, especially those things that break the law or insult Greek sensitivities, such as mooning.
- This is the same man that mooned a judge in court just a few weeks ago.
- Who could cry when Noah and Todd managed to moon the entire crowd when they went up to receive their diplomas?
- Of course, some people point out that this idea is coming from a mayor who has a habit of mooning crowds at speaking engagements, frequently dresses up in a giant carrot suit and got married on top of an elephant.
- I don't think they should throw him out of baseball, but he does deserve to get booed and mooned.
- Of particular note was the girl who cartwheeled onto stage, promptly mooned the audience, and then pinwheeled her arms in a dancing frenzy for the remainder of the set.
- The baby photos are cute, but it's the snap of the foursome cheekily mooning that gets the biggest reaction.
- You may remember two or three years ago Howard he his pants down and mooned the camera and the audience.

Phrases

over the moon

informal Extremely happy; delighted.
〈非正式〉非常高兴；快活极了
they're going on holiday on Wednesday so they're all over the moon
Example sentencesExamples
- He was over the moon and planned to be there at the birth.
- The call up came last weekend and I was over the moon with it.
- There was absolute jubilation around and people were over the moon with it.
- You can tell I'm over the moon by the amount I have rambled on!
- Now she's over the moon that in the space of three years, she's not only got herself a fascinating hobby but a husband and business as well.
- There is actually some good news though, I am now 8 months pregnant and with my new partner who is over the moon at having a child.
- Joe, who has worked at the centre since 1991, said he was over the moon with the award which he said was for everyone who works at the centre.
- I'm delighted for him and I'm really and truly over the moon for what he's achieved.
- She is still over the moon, stunned and elated and by her good fortune.
- If we won the championship, naturally we would be over the moon.
Synonyms
ecstatic, euphoric, thrilled, overjoyed, elated, delighted, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, treading on air, walking on air, in seventh heaven, jubilant, rapturous, beside oneself with joy, jumping for joy, exultant, transported, delirious, enraptured, blissful, in raptures, as pleased as punch, cock-a-hoop, as happy as a sandboy, as happy as larry, like a child with a new toy

Derivatives

moonless

adjective ˈmuːnləsˈmunləs

His hair was the same black as the moonless night.
Example sentencesExamples
- They sit in silence in the back as the car drives off in a dark moonless night.
- The moonless night is dark and incredibly clear.
- Nothing is more frightening to me than the pitch dark on a moonless night in the countryside with no street lights.
- I didn't want to stumble around in the moonless dark, so I decided to head back.

moonlike

adjective

Though the island's moonlike interior - pockmarked with lime and mudflats - makes for a startling contrast with the picturesque coastline.
Example sentencesExamples
- The sun looked pale and moonlike, behind clouds, as in the picture.
- He describes how some areas were pitted with moonlike craters.
- Because of the phosphate mining, all but the very edges of the island has been turned in to a desolate, moonlike setting.
- Irazu, Costa Rica's tallest volcano, and the closest to San José, is almost moonlike, its grey, barren landscape dotted with craters and devoid of plant life.

Origin

Old English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn 'month', and also Latin metiri 'to measure' (the moon being used to measure time).

The words moon, month, and measure (Middle English) all go back to the same ancient root. Since the earliest times people have looked at the full moon and seen a face or figure there, which has been identified as the man in the moon since the Middle Ages. The patterns on the moon's disc were formerly also seen as a man leaning on a fork and carrying a bundle of sticks or as a man with his dog and a thorn bush, while other cultures have seen a rabbit, hare, frog, or other animal. The expression over the moon, ‘extremely happy’, though it goes back to the early 18th century, is now particularly associated with post-match remarks from victorious footballers and football managers (along with its opposite, sick as a parrot). The origins of it lie in a nursery rhyme beginning ‘Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon’. The distance and unattainability of the moon is behind such phrases as to cry for the moon ‘to ask for what is impossible or unattainable’ and to promise someone the moon. For a dog to bark at the moon is a singularly pointless act, and people have used it to express futility since the mid 17th century. See also blue

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon

Definition of moon in US English:

moon

nounmo͞onmun

the moon" or "the Moon

1The natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
月球，月亮
The earth's moon orbits the earth in a period of 29.5 days, going through a series of phases from new moon to full moon and back again during that time. Its average distance from the earth is some 239,000 miles (384,000 km) and it is 2,160 miles (3,476 km) in diameter. The bright and dark features that outline the face of “the man in the moon” are highland and lowland regions, the high regions being heavily pockmarked by craters due to the impact of meteorites. The moon has no atmosphere, and the same side is always presented to the earth
Example sentencesExamples
- The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite.
- The nation is remembering the moment a human being first set foot on the moon 35 years ago.
- Eclipses of the sun and the moon occur every six months.
- At the top of the page was a sketch of the phases the moon went through each month.
- It also gives a method to determine longitude based on eclipses of the Moon.
- He looked to the sky, seeing a pale full moon visible behind a patch of clouds.
- Gravity pulls the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth, and it causes tides.
- Jews count the months by the moon; western civilization patterns its calendar after the sun.
- Finally, the moon has been judged to be the cause of madness, the term ‘lunacy’ deriving from the Latin luna, meaning moon.
- The night was freezing cold, and the full moon was shining through the window.
- The waxing Moon was three-quarters full and too high and too far to the south to shine into the kitchen.
- The Sun is in fact very much larger than the Moon, but it is also very much further away.
- The 15th day of the eighth month, when the moon is round and clear, is the middle of autumn.
- If you calculate back a billion and a half years ago, the moon would have been in direct contact with the earth.
- The force exerted by the Moon on the Earth is having a similar effect on the Earth's rotation.
- The moon came up four hours ago, huge and the colour of a malfunctioning striplight on an office ceiling.
- The stars are there and of course with the naked eye the Moon is also often visible.
- We sat there talking under the stars until the Moon slipped beneath the circle of trees.
- I look out over the docks again and watch the bright moon in the sky.
- There was no sign of the Moon but the odd star managed to look down through gaps in the belts of cloud.
Synonyms
satellite
1. 1.1 A natural satellite of any planet.
  卫星
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of all the moons circling all the planets in the solar system, only Saturn's moon, Titan, is known to have an atmosphere.
  The satellites or the two moons of Mars - Phobos and Deimos - are seen revolving around it.
  The main objective is to enhance our understanding of the Solar System by exploring the planets, their moons, and small bodies, such as comets and asteroids.
  Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to release a probe that will travel to one of the planet's moons, Titan.
  He discovered moons orbiting Jupiter.
  Spacecraft have flown by every major planet, and most of their important moons, in the solar system.
  Over many millions of years, the matter within our solar system has coalesced into many moons, nine planets and the star that we call the sun.
  Two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered orbiting Mars in 1877.
  Telescopes on the ground, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, have also discovered small moons around these planets.
  Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past.
  Once it enters orbit, it will begin a four-year scientific tour of the planet and its moons.
  He also discovered four moons: Titania and Oberon at Uranus, and Enceladus and Mimas at Saturn.
  But what about the geologies of the nine planets and over sixty moons of the solar system?
  The moons of the outer planets in the solar system are also rich with various kinds of ices.
  He discovered moons orbiting the planet Jupiter.
  Observational astronomers use telescopes, on Earth and in space, to study objects ranging from planets and moons to distant galaxies.
  Outer space was a vivacious place, filled with planets and stars, moons and black holes, supernovas and asteroid belts.
  Modern interplanetary spacecraft explore their target planets and moons with the aid of robots, and these robots are also becoming very small.
  It happens that Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, which are captured asteroids orbiting very close to that planet.
  As the science of robotics advances, the search for resources and signs of life on distant planets and moons will be carried out increasingly by rovers and other robots.
  Synonyms
  satellite
2. 1.2literary, humorous A month.
  〈诗/文或幽默〉月份
  many moons had passed since he brought a prospective investor home
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many moons ago it seems now, dental treatment and glasses were all free to everyone but now unless ur still at school or are unemployed you have to pay for it!
  Many moons ago, I worked for a business association.
  Many moons ago, a Spanish football team travelled to the Olympic Games in Belgium, where they acquitted themselves well, winning many fans.
  Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village.
  The fight from a few moons ago had gained me some respect, if not that much.
  Or would they sing that song that they did sing together all those moons ago.
  She had gotten cut on the thigh in a practice session, but that had been six moons ago and the wound had not been so deep as to not be able to heal quickly and fully.
  Many moons ago I wrote about the trials and tribulations of shooting a commercial calendar.
  Many moons ago, I had a friend who repaired electronics for a living.
  Tendron had heard all about the incident with Sir Jacob Swift - was it only six moons ago?
  So other than the lower interest rates, why are we clamouring to buy what we shunned just a few moons ago?
  Many moons ago I had a landlady who claimed to remember the days when the road through Bilsdale was no more than a rough track.
  Many moons ago, actually about 24 years to the day, I was very nearly run down by a bus.
  Regulars will recall that many a moon ago we had a cryptic clue competition which was won by a gentleman caller called Keir.
  Synonyms
  a long time ago, ages ago, years ago
3. 1.3the moon Anything that one could desire.
  〈喻〉渴望之物
  you must know he'd give any of us the moon
  你应该知道他会给我们每个人摘下月亮。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Politicians and lovers are both inclined to offer you the moon, but both might eventually do nothing more than use you and leave you for scrap.
  I wouldn't lay down on that thing even if you promised me the moon.
  They want someone who can give you the moon if you desired it, it's what I want for you, what you deserve.

verbmo͞onmun

1no object, with adverbial Behave or move in a listless and aimless manner.
懒散度日；浪荡
lying in bed eating candy, mooning around
Example sentencesExamples
- His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers.
- And she's mooning around with old love-letters instead of putting herself to good use.
- I spent at least a year mooning around before Darren had told me to snap out of it.
- And yep, you got it right, up till now, he was still mooning around because of Sandara.
- She is still mooning about in that motel room, but she does that you know.
Synonyms
waste time, fiddle, loaf, idle, mope, drift, stooge around
1. 1.1 Act in a dreamily infatuated manner.
  出神；呆视
  Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy
  蒂莫西像小学生那样呆视着她。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Why was he mooning over a girl that he hardly knew?
  I was getting sick of them mooning over each other.
  He felt like one of those idiots in a chick flick mooning over the movie's lead.
  Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way.
  He, of course, was soaking it all in and enjoying the way they mooned over him.
  It's kinda hard when you see your husband mooning over a stupid blonde.
  In 1993, she hung around tennis courts mooning after Andre Agassi.
  Haley lets out a small sigh, ‘What you just described would be mooning or pining, not to mention pathetic.’
  I don't want my employees looking like lovesick schoolgirls mooning over a cute hunk.
  Including spending most of my teenage years mooning over a guy who never even knew my name.
  The afternoon was their own, and most soldiers spent their free time mooning over the girl at the tavern.
  She turns up on a transfer, starts acing every assignment, acts modest about it and never seems to do any extra work, and you're playing racquetball with her and mooning after her whenever she heads off on a date with Donnie.
  Anne is now officially ‘loved up’ with the bloke she has been mooning over for 4 years.
  She would spend most of the night mooning over Jake anyway.
  Just when Michele pledged to get on with her life and stop mooning for her mechanical engineer, out of the blue he asked her out for dinner and proposed.
  I was thinking of getting engaged to Barry, but I saw less and less of him and mooned over John.
  She finally quit mooning over Terrie, and she and John are now going steady.
  Kim's second-best friend Sharon is still mooning over Shane.
  However he just couldn't help spending a lot of time mooning over the situation.
  My best friend's oblivious to everything, mooning over some guy.
  Synonyms
  mope, pine, languish, brood, daydream, fantasize, be in a reverie, be in a brown study
2informal no object Expose one's buttocks to (someone) in order to insult or amuse them.
〈非正式〉表示侮辱或逗笑对…亮光屁股
Dan had whipped around, bent over, and mooned the crowd
Example sentencesExamples
- They're swinging about like monkeys, roaring up and down the aisles and I was even mooned at once.
- I don't think they should throw him out of baseball, but he does deserve to get booed and mooned.
- He famously mooned a referee, threw a shoe at a baseline judge who kept calling foot faults and changed both his shirt and his shorts on court during a match.
- On Nov.4, Valleyfield police reported that a 19-year-old boy at a party in a mall parking lot had approached their car and mooned them.
- Last time she was here, she says, she and her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, dropped their trousers on the ride and mooned the people in the car behind them.
- He was touring 300 nights of the year, playing these wild shows: getting drunk, mooning the audience and shooting guns.
- You may remember two or three years ago Howard he his pants down and mooned the camera and the audience.
- We do not like some of the things they do, especially those things that break the law or insult Greek sensitivities, such as mooning.
- Of particular note was the girl who cartwheeled onto stage, promptly mooned the audience, and then pinwheeled her arms in a dancing frenzy for the remainder of the set.
- No, my real issue with them is that I am tired of getting inadvertently mooned by complete strangers.
- The baby photos are cute, but it's the snap of the foursome cheekily mooning that gets the biggest reaction.
- Of course, some people point out that this idea is coming from a mayor who has a habit of mooning crowds at speaking engagements, frequently dresses up in a giant carrot suit and got married on top of an elephant.
- This is the same man that mooned a judge in court just a few weeks ago.
- Who could cry when Noah and Todd managed to moon the entire crowd when they went up to receive their diplomas?

Phrases

over the moon

informal Extremely happy; delighted.
〈非正式〉非常高兴；快活极了
Example sentencesExamples
- The call up came last weekend and I was over the moon with it.
- There is actually some good news though, I am now 8 months pregnant and with my new partner who is over the moon at having a child.
- If we won the championship, naturally we would be over the moon.
- There was absolute jubilation around and people were over the moon with it.
- Now she's over the moon that in the space of three years, she's not only got herself a fascinating hobby but a husband and business as well.
- You can tell I'm over the moon by the amount I have rambled on!
- She is still over the moon, stunned and elated and by her good fortune.
- I'm delighted for him and I'm really and truly over the moon for what he's achieved.
- He was over the moon and planned to be there at the birth.
- Joe, who has worked at the centre since 1991, said he was over the moon with the award which he said was for everyone who works at the centre.
Synonyms
ecstatic, euphoric, thrilled, overjoyed, elated, delighted, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, treading on air, walking on air, in seventh heaven, jubilant, rapturous, beside oneself with joy, jumping for joy, exultant, transported, delirious, enraptured, blissful, in raptures, as pleased as punch, cock-a-hoop, as happy as a sandboy, as happy as larry, like a child with a new toy

many moons ago

informal A long time ago.
〈非正式〉很久以前
Example sentencesExamples
- I've always loved writing and when I was at school many moons ago, I was lucky enough to have an English teacher who encouraged me.
- Then there are the regular habitués who, many moons ago, took up permanent residence along the boulevard's sidewalks.
- We used to go out together many, many moons ago - actually we dated for 7 years - and it was a very happy time being in the swinging 80s.
- That's when we first met many, many moons ago and then we started having him on as a regular guest maybe once a month, maybe even twice a month.
- Many many moons ago, I dated a guy who was into rockclimbing.
- But, many moons ago, someone somewhere read complaints about cable modem service and believed it.
- I have never played this game but seem to remember seeing it on the shelves of some shops I've been in many moons ago.
- As a young man, many, many moons ago, he visited nearby Moorehall where he met and courted his loving, patient wife, Sally.
- One summer, many moons ago, I worked in Carillon, Quebec, as a guide for Parks Canada at the Carillon / Granville lock.
- Brenda is one of the best at our game and I was lucky enough to have benefited from being a classmate of hers, many moons ago, in college.

Origin

Old English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn ‘month’, and also Latin metiri ‘to measure’ (the moon being used to measure time).

词汇	moon
释义	Definition of moon in English: moon noun muːnmun 1The natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun. 月球，月亮 there was no moon, but a sky sparkling with brilliant stars the first man on the moon Example sentencesExamples At the top of the page was a sketch of the phases the moon went through each month. I look out over the docks again and watch the bright moon in the sky. The Sun is in fact very much larger than the Moon, but it is also very much further away. He looked to the sky, seeing a pale full moon visible behind a patch of clouds. The 15th day of the eighth month, when the moon is round and clear, is the middle of autumn. Finally, the moon has been judged to be the cause of madness, the term ‘lunacy’ deriving from the Latin luna, meaning moon. The stars are there and of course with the naked eye the Moon is also often visible. There was no sign of the Moon but the odd star managed to look down through gaps in the belts of cloud. The moon came up four hours ago, huge and the colour of a malfunctioning striplight on an office ceiling. We sat there talking under the stars until the Moon slipped beneath the circle of trees. The waxing Moon was three-quarters full and too high and too far to the south to shine into the kitchen. If you calculate back a billion and a half years ago, the moon would have been in direct contact with the earth. Gravity pulls the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth, and it causes tides. It also gives a method to determine longitude based on eclipses of the Moon. The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. Eclipses of the sun and the moon occur every six months. Jews count the months by the moon; western civilization patterns its calendar after the sun. The nation is remembering the moment a human being first set foot on the moon 35 years ago. The force exerted by the Moon on the Earth is having a similar effect on the Earth's rotation. The night was freezing cold, and the full moon was shining through the window. Synonyms satellite 1.1 A natural satellite of any planet. 卫星 Titan, Saturn's largest moon Example sentencesExamples The satellites or the two moons of Mars - Phobos and Deimos - are seen revolving around it. Two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered orbiting Mars in 1877. Once it enters orbit, it will begin a four-year scientific tour of the planet and its moons. He discovered moons orbiting Jupiter. Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past. Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to release a probe that will travel to one of the planet's moons, Titan. It happens that Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, which are captured asteroids orbiting very close to that planet. Telescopes on the ground, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, have also discovered small moons around these planets. Over many millions of years, the matter within our solar system has coalesced into many moons, nine planets and the star that we call the sun. The main objective is to enhance our understanding of the Solar System by exploring the planets, their moons, and small bodies, such as comets and asteroids. Spacecraft have flown by every major planet, and most of their important moons, in the solar system. As the science of robotics advances, the search for resources and signs of life on distant planets and moons will be carried out increasingly by rovers and other robots. Observational astronomers use telescopes, on Earth and in space, to study objects ranging from planets and moons to distant galaxies. Of all the moons circling all the planets in the solar system, only Saturn's moon, Titan, is known to have an atmosphere. He discovered moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. The moons of the outer planets in the solar system are also rich with various kinds of ices. He also discovered four moons: Titania and Oberon at Uranus, and Enceladus and Mimas at Saturn. Outer space was a vivacious place, filled with planets and stars, moons and black holes, supernovas and asteroid belts. Modern interplanetary spacecraft explore their target planets and moons with the aid of robots, and these robots are also becoming very small. But what about the geologies of the nine planets and over sixty moons of the solar system? Synonyms satellite 1.2humorous, literary A month. 〈诗/文或幽默〉月份 that wonderful night four moons ago 四个月前的那个美好夜晚。 I got my first laser printer many moons ago Example sentencesExamples Or would they sing that song that they did sing together all those moons ago. Many moons ago I wrote about the trials and tribulations of shooting a commercial calendar. Many moons ago it seems now, dental treatment and glasses were all free to everyone but now unless ur still at school or are unemployed you have to pay for it! The fight from a few moons ago had gained me some respect, if not that much. Many moons ago I had a landlady who claimed to remember the days when the road through Bilsdale was no more than a rough track. So other than the lower interest rates, why are we clamouring to buy what we shunned just a few moons ago? Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village. Many moons ago, I had a friend who repaired electronics for a living. Many moons ago, actually about 24 years to the day, I was very nearly run down by a bus. Many moons ago, I worked for a business association. Tendron had heard all about the incident with Sir Jacob Swift - was it only six moons ago? Regulars will recall that many a moon ago we had a cryptic clue competition which was won by a gentleman caller called Keir. Many moons ago, a Spanish football team travelled to the Olympic Games in Belgium, where they acquitted themselves well, winning many fans. She had gotten cut on the thigh in a practice session, but that had been six moons ago and the wound had not been so deep as to not be able to heal quickly and fully. Synonyms a long time ago, ages ago, years ago British informal donkey's years ago, yonks ago South African before the rinderpest 1.3the moon Anything that one could desire. 〈喻〉渴望之物 you must know he'd give you the moon 你应该知道他会给我们每个人摘下月亮。 Example sentencesExamples Politicians and lovers are both inclined to offer you the moon, but both might eventually do nothing more than use you and leave you for scrap. I wouldn't lay down on that thing even if you promised me the moon. They want someone who can give you the moon if you desired it, it's what I want for you, what you deserve. The moon orbits the earth in a period of 27.32 days, going through a series of phases from new moon to full moon and back again during that time. Its average distance from the earth is some 384,000 km and it is 3,476 km in diameter. The bright and dark features which outline the face of ‘the Man in the Moon’ are highland and lowland regions, the former heavily pockmarked by craters due to the impact of meteorites. The moon has no atmosphere, and the same side is always presented to the earth verb muːnmun 1no object, with adverbial Behave or move in a listless and aimless manner. 懒散度日；浪荡 I don't want her mooning about in the morning 我不想让她浪荡一上午。 Example sentencesExamples She is still mooning about in that motel room, but she does that you know. And she's mooning around with old love-letters instead of putting herself to good use. His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers. I spent at least a year mooning around before Darren had told me to snap out of it. And yep, you got it right, up till now, he was still mooning around because of Sandara. Synonyms waste time, fiddle, loaf, idle, mope, drift, stooge around British informal mooch North American informal lollygag, bat 1.1 Act in a dreamily infatuated manner. 出神；呆视 Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy 蒂莫西像小学生那样呆视着她。 Example sentencesExamples My best friend's oblivious to everything, mooning over some guy. In 1993, she hung around tennis courts mooning after Andre Agassi. Kim's second-best friend Sharon is still mooning over Shane. Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way. She turns up on a transfer, starts acing every assignment, acts modest about it and never seems to do any extra work, and you're playing racquetball with her and mooning after her whenever she heads off on a date with Donnie. Just when Michele pledged to get on with her life and stop mooning for her mechanical engineer, out of the blue he asked her out for dinner and proposed. I was getting sick of them mooning over each other. Anne is now officially ‘loved up’ with the bloke she has been mooning over for 4 years. Haley lets out a small sigh, ‘What you just described would be mooning or pining, not to mention pathetic.’ Why was he mooning over a girl that he hardly knew? However he just couldn't help spending a lot of time mooning over the situation. The afternoon was their own, and most soldiers spent their free time mooning over the girl at the tavern. She would spend most of the night mooning over Jake anyway. I was thinking of getting engaged to Barry, but I saw less and less of him and mooned over John. He felt like one of those idiots in a chick flick mooning over the movie's lead. He, of course, was soaking it all in and enjoying the way they mooned over him. She finally quit mooning over Terrie, and she and John are now going steady. I don't want my employees looking like lovesick schoolgirls mooning over a cute hunk. It's kinda hard when you see your husband mooning over a stupid blonde. Including spending most of my teenage years mooning over a guy who never even knew my name. Synonyms mope, pine, languish, brood, daydream, fantasize, be in a reverie, be in a brown study 2informal no object Expose one's buttocks to someone in order to insult or amuse them. 〈非正式〉表示侮辱或逗笑对…亮光屁股 the crew dropped their trousers and mooned at them with object Dan had whipped round, bent over, and mooned the crowd Example sentencesExamples They're swinging about like monkeys, roaring up and down the aisles and I was even mooned at once. No, my real issue with them is that I am tired of getting inadvertently mooned by complete strangers. He was touring 300 nights of the year, playing these wild shows: getting drunk, mooning the audience and shooting guns. On Nov.4, Valleyfield police reported that a 19-year-old boy at a party in a mall parking lot had approached their car and mooned them. Last time she was here, she says, she and her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, dropped their trousers on the ride and mooned the people in the car behind them. He famously mooned a referee, threw a shoe at a baseline judge who kept calling foot faults and changed both his shirt and his shorts on court during a match. We do not like some of the things they do, especially those things that break the law or insult Greek sensitivities, such as mooning. This is the same man that mooned a judge in court just a few weeks ago. Who could cry when Noah and Todd managed to moon the entire crowd when they went up to receive their diplomas? Of course, some people point out that this idea is coming from a mayor who has a habit of mooning crowds at speaking engagements, frequently dresses up in a giant carrot suit and got married on top of an elephant. I don't think they should throw him out of baseball, but he does deserve to get booed and mooned. Of particular note was the girl who cartwheeled onto stage, promptly mooned the audience, and then pinwheeled her arms in a dancing frenzy for the remainder of the set. The baby photos are cute, but it's the snap of the foursome cheekily mooning that gets the biggest reaction. You may remember two or three years ago Howard he his pants down and mooned the camera and the audience. Phrases over the moon informal Extremely happy; delighted. 〈非正式〉非常高兴；快活极了 they're going on holiday on Wednesday so they're all over the moon Example sentencesExamples He was over the moon and planned to be there at the birth. The call up came last weekend and I was over the moon with it. There was absolute jubilation around and people were over the moon with it. You can tell I'm over the moon by the amount I have rambled on! Now she's over the moon that in the space of three years, she's not only got herself a fascinating hobby but a husband and business as well. There is actually some good news though, I am now 8 months pregnant and with my new partner who is over the moon at having a child. Joe, who has worked at the centre since 1991, said he was over the moon with the award which he said was for everyone who works at the centre. I'm delighted for him and I'm really and truly over the moon for what he's achieved. She is still over the moon, stunned and elated and by her good fortune. If we won the championship, naturally we would be over the moon. Synonyms ecstatic, euphoric, thrilled, overjoyed, elated, delighted, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, treading on air, walking on air, in seventh heaven, jubilant, rapturous, beside oneself with joy, jumping for joy, exultant, transported, delirious, enraptured, blissful, in raptures, as pleased as punch, cock-a-hoop, as happy as a sandboy, as happy as larry, like a child with a new toy Derivatives moonless adjective ˈmuːnləsˈmunləs His hair was the same black as the moonless night. Example sentencesExamples They sit in silence in the back as the car drives off in a dark moonless night. The moonless night is dark and incredibly clear. Nothing is more frightening to me than the pitch dark on a moonless night in the countryside with no street lights. I didn't want to stumble around in the moonless dark, so I decided to head back. moonlike adjective Though the island's moonlike interior - pockmarked with lime and mudflats - makes for a startling contrast with the picturesque coastline. Example sentencesExamples The sun looked pale and moonlike, behind clouds, as in the picture. He describes how some areas were pitted with moonlike craters. Because of the phosphate mining, all but the very edges of the island has been turned in to a desolate, moonlike setting. Irazu, Costa Rica's tallest volcano, and the closest to San José, is almost moonlike, its grey, barren landscape dotted with craters and devoid of plant life. Origin Old English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn 'month', and also Latin metiri 'to measure' (the moon being used to measure time). The words moon, month, and measure (Middle English) all go back to the same ancient root. Since the earliest times people have looked at the full moon and seen a face or figure there, which has been identified as the man in the moon since the Middle Ages. The patterns on the moon's disc were formerly also seen as a man leaning on a fork and carrying a bundle of sticks or as a man with his dog and a thorn bush, while other cultures have seen a rabbit, hare, frog, or other animal. The expression over the moon, ‘extremely happy’, though it goes back to the early 18th century, is now particularly associated with post-match remarks from victorious footballers and football managers (along with its opposite, sick as a parrot). The origins of it lie in a nursery rhyme beginning ‘Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon’. The distance and unattainability of the moon is behind such phrases as to cry for the moon ‘to ask for what is impossible or unattainable’ and to promise someone the moon. For a dog to bark at the moon is a singularly pointless act, and people have used it to express futility since the mid 17th century. See also blue Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon noun.1 phr. Definition of moon in US English: moon nounmo͞onmun the moon" or "the Moon 1The natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun. 月球，月亮 The earth's moon orbits the earth in a period of 29.5 days, going through a series of phases from new moon to full moon and back again during that time. Its average distance from the earth is some 239,000 miles (384,000 km) and it is 2,160 miles (3,476 km) in diameter. The bright and dark features that outline the face of “the man in the moon” are highland and lowland regions, the high regions being heavily pockmarked by craters due to the impact of meteorites. The moon has no atmosphere, and the same side is always presented to the earth Example sentencesExamples The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. The nation is remembering the moment a human being first set foot on the moon 35 years ago. Eclipses of the sun and the moon occur every six months. At the top of the page was a sketch of the phases the moon went through each month. It also gives a method to determine longitude based on eclipses of the Moon. He looked to the sky, seeing a pale full moon visible behind a patch of clouds. Gravity pulls the Earth around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth, and it causes tides. Jews count the months by the moon; western civilization patterns its calendar after the sun. Finally, the moon has been judged to be the cause of madness, the term ‘lunacy’ deriving from the Latin luna, meaning moon. The night was freezing cold, and the full moon was shining through the window. The waxing Moon was three-quarters full and too high and too far to the south to shine into the kitchen. The Sun is in fact very much larger than the Moon, but it is also very much further away. The 15th day of the eighth month, when the moon is round and clear, is the middle of autumn. If you calculate back a billion and a half years ago, the moon would have been in direct contact with the earth. The force exerted by the Moon on the Earth is having a similar effect on the Earth's rotation. The moon came up four hours ago, huge and the colour of a malfunctioning striplight on an office ceiling. The stars are there and of course with the naked eye the Moon is also often visible. We sat there talking under the stars until the Moon slipped beneath the circle of trees. I look out over the docks again and watch the bright moon in the sky. There was no sign of the Moon but the odd star managed to look down through gaps in the belts of cloud. Synonyms satellite 1.1 A natural satellite of any planet. 卫星 Example sentencesExamples Of all the moons circling all the planets in the solar system, only Saturn's moon, Titan, is known to have an atmosphere. The satellites or the two moons of Mars - Phobos and Deimos - are seen revolving around it. The main objective is to enhance our understanding of the Solar System by exploring the planets, their moons, and small bodies, such as comets and asteroids. Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to release a probe that will travel to one of the planet's moons, Titan. He discovered moons orbiting Jupiter. Spacecraft have flown by every major planet, and most of their important moons, in the solar system. Over many millions of years, the matter within our solar system has coalesced into many moons, nine planets and the star that we call the sun. Two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered orbiting Mars in 1877. Telescopes on the ground, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, have also discovered small moons around these planets. Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past. Once it enters orbit, it will begin a four-year scientific tour of the planet and its moons. He also discovered four moons: Titania and Oberon at Uranus, and Enceladus and Mimas at Saturn. But what about the geologies of the nine planets and over sixty moons of the solar system? The moons of the outer planets in the solar system are also rich with various kinds of ices. He discovered moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. Observational astronomers use telescopes, on Earth and in space, to study objects ranging from planets and moons to distant galaxies. Outer space was a vivacious place, filled with planets and stars, moons and black holes, supernovas and asteroid belts. Modern interplanetary spacecraft explore their target planets and moons with the aid of robots, and these robots are also becoming very small. It happens that Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, which are captured asteroids orbiting very close to that planet. As the science of robotics advances, the search for resources and signs of life on distant planets and moons will be carried out increasingly by rovers and other robots. Synonyms satellite 1.2literary, humorous A month. 〈诗/文或幽默〉月份 many moons had passed since he brought a prospective investor home Example sentencesExamples Many moons ago it seems now, dental treatment and glasses were all free to everyone but now unless ur still at school or are unemployed you have to pay for it! Many moons ago, I worked for a business association. Many moons ago, a Spanish football team travelled to the Olympic Games in Belgium, where they acquitted themselves well, winning many fans. Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village. The fight from a few moons ago had gained me some respect, if not that much. Or would they sing that song that they did sing together all those moons ago. She had gotten cut on the thigh in a practice session, but that had been six moons ago and the wound had not been so deep as to not be able to heal quickly and fully. Many moons ago I wrote about the trials and tribulations of shooting a commercial calendar. Many moons ago, I had a friend who repaired electronics for a living. Tendron had heard all about the incident with Sir Jacob Swift - was it only six moons ago? So other than the lower interest rates, why are we clamouring to buy what we shunned just a few moons ago? Many moons ago I had a landlady who claimed to remember the days when the road through Bilsdale was no more than a rough track. Many moons ago, actually about 24 years to the day, I was very nearly run down by a bus. Regulars will recall that many a moon ago we had a cryptic clue competition which was won by a gentleman caller called Keir. Synonyms a long time ago, ages ago, years ago 1.3the moon Anything that one could desire. 〈喻〉渴望之物 you must know he'd give any of us the moon 你应该知道他会给我们每个人摘下月亮。 Example sentencesExamples Politicians and lovers are both inclined to offer you the moon, but both might eventually do nothing more than use you and leave you for scrap. I wouldn't lay down on that thing even if you promised me the moon. They want someone who can give you the moon if you desired it, it's what I want for you, what you deserve. verbmo͞onmun 1no object, with adverbial Behave or move in a listless and aimless manner. 懒散度日；浪荡 lying in bed eating candy, mooning around Example sentencesExamples His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers. And she's mooning around with old love-letters instead of putting herself to good use. I spent at least a year mooning around before Darren had told me to snap out of it. And yep, you got it right, up till now, he was still mooning around because of Sandara. She is still mooning about in that motel room, but she does that you know. Synonyms waste time, fiddle, loaf, idle, mope, drift, stooge around 1.1 Act in a dreamily infatuated manner. 出神；呆视 Timothy's mooning over her like a schoolboy 蒂莫西像小学生那样呆视着她。 Example sentencesExamples Why was he mooning over a girl that he hardly knew? I was getting sick of them mooning over each other. He felt like one of those idiots in a chick flick mooning over the movie's lead. Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way. He, of course, was soaking it all in and enjoying the way they mooned over him. It's kinda hard when you see your husband mooning over a stupid blonde. In 1993, she hung around tennis courts mooning after Andre Agassi. Haley lets out a small sigh, ‘What you just described would be mooning or pining, not to mention pathetic.’ I don't want my employees looking like lovesick schoolgirls mooning over a cute hunk. Including spending most of my teenage years mooning over a guy who never even knew my name. The afternoon was their own, and most soldiers spent their free time mooning over the girl at the tavern. She turns up on a transfer, starts acing every assignment, acts modest about it and never seems to do any extra work, and you're playing racquetball with her and mooning after her whenever she heads off on a date with Donnie. Anne is now officially ‘loved up’ with the bloke she has been mooning over for 4 years. She would spend most of the night mooning over Jake anyway. Just when Michele pledged to get on with her life and stop mooning for her mechanical engineer, out of the blue he asked her out for dinner and proposed. I was thinking of getting engaged to Barry, but I saw less and less of him and mooned over John. She finally quit mooning over Terrie, and she and John are now going steady. Kim's second-best friend Sharon is still mooning over Shane. However he just couldn't help spending a lot of time mooning over the situation. My best friend's oblivious to everything, mooning over some guy. Synonyms mope, pine, languish, brood, daydream, fantasize, be in a reverie, be in a brown study 2informal no object Expose one's buttocks to (someone) in order to insult or amuse them. 〈非正式〉表示侮辱或逗笑对…亮光屁股 Dan had whipped around, bent over, and mooned the crowd Example sentencesExamples They're swinging about like monkeys, roaring up and down the aisles and I was even mooned at once. I don't think they should throw him out of baseball, but he does deserve to get booed and mooned. He famously mooned a referee, threw a shoe at a baseline judge who kept calling foot faults and changed both his shirt and his shorts on court during a match. On Nov.4, Valleyfield police reported that a 19-year-old boy at a party in a mall parking lot had approached their car and mooned them. Last time she was here, she says, she and her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, dropped their trousers on the ride and mooned the people in the car behind them. He was touring 300 nights of the year, playing these wild shows: getting drunk, mooning the audience and shooting guns. You may remember two or three years ago Howard he his pants down and mooned the camera and the audience. We do not like some of the things they do, especially those things that break the law or insult Greek sensitivities, such as mooning. Of particular note was the girl who cartwheeled onto stage, promptly mooned the audience, and then pinwheeled her arms in a dancing frenzy for the remainder of the set. No, my real issue with them is that I am tired of getting inadvertently mooned by complete strangers. The baby photos are cute, but it's the snap of the foursome cheekily mooning that gets the biggest reaction. Of course, some people point out that this idea is coming from a mayor who has a habit of mooning crowds at speaking engagements, frequently dresses up in a giant carrot suit and got married on top of an elephant. This is the same man that mooned a judge in court just a few weeks ago. Who could cry when Noah and Todd managed to moon the entire crowd when they went up to receive their diplomas? Phrases over the moon informal Extremely happy; delighted. 〈非正式〉非常高兴；快活极了 Example sentencesExamples The call up came last weekend and I was over the moon with it. There is actually some good news though, I am now 8 months pregnant and with my new partner who is over the moon at having a child. If we won the championship, naturally we would be over the moon. There was absolute jubilation around and people were over the moon with it. Now she's over the moon that in the space of three years, she's not only got herself a fascinating hobby but a husband and business as well. You can tell I'm over the moon by the amount I have rambled on! She is still over the moon, stunned and elated and by her good fortune. I'm delighted for him and I'm really and truly over the moon for what he's achieved. He was over the moon and planned to be there at the birth. Joe, who has worked at the centre since 1991, said he was over the moon with the award which he said was for everyone who works at the centre. Synonyms ecstatic, euphoric, thrilled, overjoyed, elated, delighted, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, treading on air, walking on air, in seventh heaven, jubilant, rapturous, beside oneself with joy, jumping for joy, exultant, transported, delirious, enraptured, blissful, in raptures, as pleased as punch, cock-a-hoop, as happy as a sandboy, as happy as larry, like a child with a new toy many moons ago informal A long time ago. 〈非正式〉很久以前 Example sentencesExamples I've always loved writing and when I was at school many moons ago, I was lucky enough to have an English teacher who encouraged me. Then there are the regular habitués who, many moons ago, took up permanent residence along the boulevard's sidewalks. We used to go out together many, many moons ago - actually we dated for 7 years - and it was a very happy time being in the swinging 80s. That's when we first met many, many moons ago and then we started having him on as a regular guest maybe once a month, maybe even twice a month. Many many moons ago, I dated a guy who was into rockclimbing. But, many moons ago, someone somewhere read complaints about cable modem service and believed it. I have never played this game but seem to remember seeing it on the shelves of some shops I've been in many moons ago. As a young man, many, many moons ago, he visited nearby Moorehall where he met and courted his loving, patient wife, Sally. One summer, many moons ago, I worked in Carillon, Quebec, as a guide for Parks Canada at the Carillon / Granville lock. Brenda is one of the best at our game and I was lucky enough to have benefited from being a classmate of hers, many moons ago, in college. Origin Old English mōna, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maan and German Mond, also to month, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mensis and Greek mēn ‘month’, and also Latin metiri ‘to measure’ (the moon being used to measure time). noun.1 phr.
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