Amazon
['æməzən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) mainly green tropical American parrots.
(noun.) a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles).
(noun.) (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively).
(noun.) a large strong and aggressive woman.
胡安編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.
(n.) A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.
(n.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis
手打:菲尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Virago.
胡安娜校對
解釋/意思:
n. one of a fabled nation of female warriors: a masculine woman: a virago.—adj. Amazō′nian of or like an Amazon: of masculine manners: warlike.
巴雷特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The waters of the Amazon begin to rise and the work ceases. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The buildings are usually grouped together at a favorable spot on the banks of the Amazon or one of its tributaries. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In this locality the rubber harvest commences as soon as the Amazon falls which is usually about the first of August. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Hevea trees are scattered through the dense forests of practically every part of the Amazon Basin, a territory more than two-thirds as large as the United States. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- All of these grew in a region near the Amazon, and were hard to get on account of malarial conditions. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Para, at the mouth of the Amazon, and Manaos, a thousand miles up, are both modern cities of more than one hundred thousand population. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They left New York in September, 1887, arriving in due time at Para, proceeding thence twenty-three hundred miles up the Amazon River to Iquitos. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The trail of the explorer was more instantly lost in New York than in the vast recesses of the Amazon swamps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- That some rivers run into the sea is beyond a doubt: such, for instance, are the Amazons, and, I think, the Oronoko and the Mississippi. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Bates, in his interesting Naturalist on the Amazons, has described analogous cases. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
杰拉尔丁校對