Oasis
[əʊ'eɪsɪs] or [o'esɪs]
解释:
(noun.) a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
编辑:陌莉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
校对:内尔
解释:
n. a fertile spot in a sandy desert: any place of rest or pleasure in the midst of toil and gloom:—pl. Oases (ō-ā′sēz).
丹尼校对
例句:
- It is no sandy plain, nor any circumscribed and scant oasis I seem to realize. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He travelled four hundred miles to the remote oasis of the oracle of Ammon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Miss Summerson, said Mr. Guppy, rising, this is indeed an oasis. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The priests of Ammon Ra, about the time of the XVIIIth or XIXth Dynasty (_circa_ 1400 B.C.), had set up in an oasis of the desert a temple and oracle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This house has been an oasis. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Damascus is simply an oasis--that is what it is. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
校对:梅勒妮