Heath
[hiːθ] or [hiθ]
解释:
(noun.) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation.
(noun.) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers.
手打:斯坦--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
(n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Heather.
手打:蒙塔古
解释:
n. a barren open country: any shrub of genus Erica or its congener Calluna of the heath family (Ericace) a hardy evergreen under-shrub.—ns. Heath′-bell same as Heather-bell; Heath′-cock a large bird which frequents heaths: the black grouse:—fem. Heath′-hen; Heath′-poult the heath-bird esp. the female or young.—adj. Heath′y abounding with heath.
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例句:
- To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Of course not; no, it is that the heath-folk have come to sing to us a welcome. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- No other boy in the heath has had such a bonfire as yours. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- This conversation had passed in a hollow of the heath near the old Roman road, a place much frequented by Thomasin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I know the way home, and the heath has no terror for me. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The above-mentioned highway traversed the lower levels of the heath, from one horizon to another. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as heath-croppers here. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The murdered woman,--more a match for the man, certainly, in point of years--was found dead in a barn near Hounslow Heath. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the low margin of the heath in one direction, and afar on the other hand rose Mistover Knap. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I have dwelt many months in the heaths of England, and among the deserts of Scotland. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Many solitary figures he perceives creeping through the streets; many solitary figures out on heaths, and roads, and lying under haystacks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
校对:罗尼