Canton
['kæntən(ə)l;kæn'təʊn(ə)l] or ['kæntən]
解释:
(noun.) a small administrative division of a country.
(verb.) divide into cantons, of a country.
整理:怀亚特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A song or canto
(n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
(n.) A small community or clan.
(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
编辑:迈尔斯
解释:
n. a division of territory constituting in Switzerland a separate government in France a subdivision of an arrondissement: (her.) an ordinary of a shield being a square occupying generally the dexter sometimes the sinister chief of the field.—v.t. to divide into cantons: to allot quarters to troops.—adjs. Can′tonal pertaining to or divided into cantons; Can′toned (archit.) ornamented at the corners with projecting pilasters: (her.) placed in the midst of charges occupying the corners.—n. Can′tonment (also pronounced can-tōōn′ment) the temporary quarters of troops when taking part in manœuvres or active operations: in India permanent military towns distinct and at some little distance from the principal cities.
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例句:
- The canton of Berne is the single republic in Europe which has amassed any considerable treasure. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This was a party of Arabs, who came by sea to Canton in a trading vessel from Yanbu, the port of Medina in Arabia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Apply with a tuft of cotton, and finish by rubbing down hard with Canton flannel or a woolen rag. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- But so did the Moslem historians, because of that mosque at Canton, and so did the Christian writers, because of the Nestorian envoys (631). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This policy of lending money to foreign states is, so far as I know peculiar to the canton of Berne. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The canton of Underwald, in Switzerland, is frequently ravaged by storms and inundations, and it is thereby exposed to extraordinary expenses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In a Swiss canton, or in some of the little states in Italy, it may, perhaps, sometimes be necessary to restrain the exportation of corn. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- My father was Swiss--Canton de Vaud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- In the canton of Berne it is so high as a sixth part of the price of all noble fiefs, and a tenth part of that of all ignoble ones. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- If he professes himself to be of any other, indeed, the law obliges him to leave the canton. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Johnston stopped on the Canton road only six miles north of Jackson, the night of the 14th. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- In the greater part of the protestant cantons, there is not a single person to be found, who does not profess himself to be of the established church. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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