Delaware
['deləwɛə]
解释:
(noun.) the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware.
(noun.) a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.
(noun.) one of the British colonies that formed the United States.
(noun.) a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay.
(noun.) a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
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解释:
(n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
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例句:
- This was imported from England, and arrived in New York in May, 1829, and was tried in that year on a section of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s railroad. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- In my youth, I was passenger in a little sloop descending the river Delaware. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The same year Oliver Evans used a stern paddle wheel boat on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- William Penn found that they had long been at work on the Delaware when he reached its shores in 1682. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Once, in a boat on the Delaware, with some other young men, he refused to row in his turn: I will be rowed home, said he. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- In this predicament he ventured on the hazardous experiment of taking his steam-vessel by sea, and successfully accomplished his voyage from New York to Delaware. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- His lands are on navigable water, communicating with the Delaware, and but about 16 miles from this city. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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