Peninsula
[pɪ'nɪnsjʊlə] or [pə'nɪnsələ]
解释:
(n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
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解释:
n. land so surrounded by water as to be almost an island.—adj. Penin′sular pertaining to a peninsula: in the form of a peninsula: inhabiting a peninsula.—n. Peninsular′ity state of being or of inhabiting a peninsula: narrow provincialism.—v.t. Penin′sulate to form into a peninsula: to surround almost entirely with water.—Peninsular war the war in Spain and Portugal carried on by Great Britain against Napoleon's marshals (1804-1814).—The Peninsula Spain and Portugal.
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例句:
- The peninsula of Italy was not then the smiling land of vineyards and olive orchards it has since become. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Fort Fisher was situated upon a low, flat peninsula north of Cape Fear River. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The greater part of the Balkan peninsula was conquered by these people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Since then the river has made a cut-off, leaving what was the peninsula in front of the city, an island. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- This, if my memory serves me correctly, broke through the only pontoon bridge we had in all our march across the peninsula. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Upon these reports Butler determined to withdraw his troops from the peninsula and return to the fleet. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The Pharaohs of the 1st Dynasty were already working the copper and turquoise mines in the peninsula of Sinai. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- General Cornwallis was caught in the Yorktown peninsula in Virginia in 1781, and capitulated with his army. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The fort ran across this peninsula, about five hundred yards in width, and extended along the sea coast about thirteen hundred yards. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- And to Blair I wrote: Their design is evidently to cross the Big Black and pass down the peninsula between the Big Black and Yazoo rivers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The rights were secured for the peninsula; Colombo and his friends organized the Italian Edison Company, and erected at Milan the first central station in that country. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- By 1761 the British found themselves completely dominant in the Indian peninsula. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Aryan tribes who had come down into the peninsula soon lost touch with their kindred to the west and north, and developed upon lines of their own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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