Mediterranean
[,mɛdətə'renɪən]
解释:
(noun.) the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea; 'Mediterranean countries' .
谢丽尔手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.
(a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.
手打:路易
同义词及近义词：
a. Midland.
多琳校对
解释:
adj. situated in the middle of earth or land: inland—also Mediterrā′neous.—Mediterranean Sea so called from being as it were in the middle of the land of the Old World.
编辑:维姬
例句:
- Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We have great fleets in the Mediterranean, but they seldom touch at African ports. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Will you join us on a cruise in Mediterranean? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It drew together all the known world, excepting only the western Mediterranean, into one drama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was in all respects a characteristic Mediterranean day--faultlessly beautiful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The centre of diffusion of wheat was somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean region. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Fourth of July was safe, as far as the Mediterranean was concerned. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Men may have navigated boats upon the Levantine lake before the refilling of the Mediterranean by the Atlantic waters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They had no knowledge of geography beyond the range of the Mediterranean basin and the frontiers of Persia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Meanwhile the Normans from Normandy were also finding their way into the Mediterranean from the West. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Ottoman Turk had even taken to the sea, and fought the Venetian upon his own Mediterranean waters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There were things in the way of thought of the dark-white Mediterranean race; they were congenial to that type. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There were a number of such alphabets in the Mediterranean differing widely from each other. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But, meanwhile, in Egypt and upon the Mediterranean coast another system of writing grew up. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The same unimaginative quality made the Romans leave the seaways of the Mediterranean undeveloped. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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