Antipodes
[æn'tɪpədiːz] or [æn'tɪpə,diz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; 'the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes'.
克里斯整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.
(n.) The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe.
(n.) Anything exactly opposite or contrary.
伊丽莎白編輯
解釋/意思:
n.pl. those living on the other side of the globe and whose feet are thus opposite to ours: the inhabitants of any two opposite points of the globe: places on the earth's surface exactly opposite each other the region opposite one's own: the exact opposite of a person or thing:—sing. An′tipode.—adjs. Antip′odal Antipodē′an.—At antipodes in direct opposition.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They shall behold the antipodes of what is real--for I will appear to live--while I am--dead. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I longed only for what suited me--for the antipodes of the Creole: and I longed vainly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The conception of mind as a purely isolated possession of the self is at the very antipodes of the truth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is singular that the professor was the antipodes of Captain Swosser and that Mr. Badger is not in the least like either! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He also allowed himself to ridicule the idea of the antipodes, a topsy-turvy world of unima ginable disorder. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Since he was not in the grave, I could bear, I thought, to learn that he was at the Antipodes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Adrian's soul was painted in his countenance, and concealment or deceit were at the antipodes to the dreadless frankness of his nature. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- You are a sort of circumnavigator come to settle among us, and will keep up my belief in the antipodes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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