Australia
[ɒ'streɪlɪə] or [ɔ'streljə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony.
(noun.) the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
艾维斯編輯--From WordNet
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A country lying in the South Sea whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
整理:尼古拉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Thus the southern shores of America, Australia, and New Zealand may have become slightly tinted by the same peculiar forms of life. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This process is going on in Northwest India and Australia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Can I be so weak as to imagine that Mr. Micawber, wielding the rod of talent and of power in Australia, will be nothing in England? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Deep, said Wemmick, as Australia. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Nursed her as a baby, and came with her to England when they first left Australia, eighteen months ago. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The north pole will rush to the south, and the headlands of Europe be locked into the bays of Australia ere I forget. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In Australia the problem of the transmission to the natives of various diseases, even by Europeans in apparent health, confronted his intelligence. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the summer I shall go to America; and then, by a plan not yet settled, I shall go to Australia and round to India. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There is a strong presumption that the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was someone who had been in Australia. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Clarke has lately maintained that this island, as well as New Caledonia, should be considered as appurtenances of Australia. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The boat was now somewhere south of the Suez Canal on her way to Australia. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Osborne patented in Australia, and in 1861 in the United States, a transfer process which gave such great impetus to the art that he may be considered its founder and chief promotor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Here are some people David knows, going out to Australia shortly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It is to be found everywhere, even to the steppes of Asia, the plains of Australia, and the ice fields of the Arctic. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The largest landed proprietor in that part is a Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned some years ago to the old country. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
手打:普里西拉