Indian
['ɪndɪən]
解释:
(noun.) a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of India.
(adj.) of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; 'Native American religions'; 'Indian arrowheads' .
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures; 'the Indian subcontinent'; 'Indian saris' .
哈洛录入--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
(a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of India.
(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
校对:诺艾尔
解释:
adj. belonging to the Indies East or West or to the aborigines of America.—n. a native of the Indies: a European who lives or has lived in India: an aboriginal of America.—ns. In′diaman a large ship employed in trade with India; In′dia-rub′ber an elastic gummy substance the inspissated juice of various tropical plants extensively used in the arts: caoutchouc.—adj. In′dic originating or existing in India a term comprehensively applied to all the Aryan languages of India.—Indian berry a climbing Indian shrub its fruit Cocculus Indicus; Indian club a bottle-shaped block of wood swung in various motions by the arms with the view of developing the muscles of these and of the chest &c.; Indian corn maize so called because brought from the West Indies; Indian cress an ornamental garden shrub from Peru with orange flowers; Indian file (see File); Indian fire a pyrotechnic composition used as a signal-light consisting of sulphur realgar and nitre; Indian red (see Red); Indian summer in America a period of warm dry calm weather in late autumn with hazy atmosphere.—India Docks extensive docks in London for the accommodation of vessels engaged in the West and East India trade; India ink (see Ink); India Office a government office in London where are managed the affairs of the Indian government; India paper a thin yellowish printing-paper made in China and Japan from vegetable fibre and used in taking the finest proofs from engraved plates—hence called India proofs; India shawl a Cashmere shawl.—East India Company a great chartered company formed for trading with India and the East Indies more especially applied to the English Company incorporated in 1600 and abolished in 1858; East Indian an inhabitant or a native of the East Indies; Red Indian one of the aborigines of America so called from the colour of the skin—(coll.) in U.S. Injen Injun; West Indian a native or an inhabitant of the West Indies.
校对:帕蒂
例句:
- It was said he had got possession of his Indian jewel by means which, bold as he was, he didn't dare acknowledge. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- When he had finished, an Indian orator stood up to thank him. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- It was made in America, and he fought the Indian wars and the war of the Revolution with it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- You turned away, and went straight to the corner near the window--where my Indian cabinet stands. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Tell me first, I said, how the Indian in the armoury met his death, and what those last words meant, when he pointed to the dagger in your hand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The devil's dance of the Indian Diamond has threaded its way to London; and to London you must go after it, leaving me at the country-house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- He looked like a walking-West-Indian-epidemic. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Look at that cigar store Indian, Robert Jordan thought. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Are the Indians then gypsies? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- As the Indians had no letters, they had no orthography. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A certain great traveller, who understood the Indians and their language, had figured in Mr. Seegrave's report, hadn't he? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Commend me to Fennimore Cooper to find beauty in the Indians, and to Grimes to find it in the Arabs. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I left the steamer at Gravesend, and discovered that the Indians had gone from that place to London. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The Indians won't risk coming back to-night, he said. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- It is Indian, and suggestive of Indians. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Then I mentioned Peepy's coming to stay with me, and then Pa began to cry again and said the children were Indians. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The poor ill-used Indians have been most unjustly put in prison, says Mr. Franklin. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In a year from the time when the Moonstone was pledged, the Indians will be on the watch for their third chance. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
手打:卡尔