Area
['eərɪə] or ['ɛrɪə]
解释:
(noun.) a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; 'the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants'.
(noun.) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; 'the area of a rectangle'; 'it was about 500 square feet in area'.
(noun.) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; 'in the abdominal region'.
(noun.) a subject of study; 'it was his area of specialization'; 'areas of interest include...'.
(noun.) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); 'it was a mountainous area'; 'Bible country'.
德布斯录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
恩里克录入
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Region, sphere, realm, territory, domain, district, circuit, circle, definite space.[2]. (Geom.) Superficial contents.
布莱恩录入
解释:
n. any plane surface or enclosed space: the sunken space around the basement of a building: (fig.) extent conceived by the mind: (geom.) the superficial contents of any figure.
校对:潘西
例句:
- With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- By the aid of these lines the barometric conditions over a large area can be studied. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All fresh water basins, taken together, make a small area compared with that of the sea or of the land. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- To the end the largest city states of Greece remained smaller than many English counties; and some had an area of only a few square miles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In the first place we should be extremely cautious in inferring, because an area is now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- With his father's assistance he had become duke of a wide area of Central Italy when Machiavelli visited him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Not every city is so well peopled as this, or has so ample an area within its walls. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The district selected for lighting was the area--nearly a square mile in extent--included between Wall, Nassau, Spruce, and Ferry Streets, Peck Slip and the East River in New York City. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It had itself neither the area, the agricultural possibilities, nor the mineral wealth to be important. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It ad dressed itself to actual problems, such as determining the area of a square or triangular field from the length of the sides. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The ground area covered by their buildings was fifty acres, giving a floor area of 140 acres, a chill room and cold storage area of forty acres, and a storage capacity of 130,000 tons. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Thus any joke or story originating anywhere in that area was known the next day all over. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- There remained throughout the whole period considerable areas in which the elaboration of the arts of life could go on. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They probably ranged over very wide areas. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For the Egyptians, geometry was concerned w ith surfaces and dimensions, with areas and cubical contents; for the Greek, with his powers of abstraction, it became a study of line and angle. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Belgium, Serbia, and Roumania, and large areas of France and Russia, were occupied by Austro-German troops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So great was the commercial demand for dyestuffs that large areas of land were given over to the exclusive cultivation of the more important dye plants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- They probably grazed their flocks over great areas much as the sheep ranchers of California do. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with those on equal continental areas: Alph. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- They levied taxes over great areas; they exacted indemnities for real or fancied opposition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Vast areas were exposed that are now again sea bottom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Vast areas to the west and northwest which are now under the Atlantic waters were then dry land; the Irish Sea and the North Sea were river valleys. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He thought her brown face looked pallid and the skin sallow and that there were dark areas under her eyes. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
唐纳德录入