Brazil
[brə'zil]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter.
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解釋/意思:
n. usually Brazil′-wood the hard reddish wood of an East Indian tree known as sappan used in dyeing.—n. Brazil′ian a native of Brazil in South America.—adj. belonging to Brazil.—n. Brazil′-nut the edible seed of a large tree native of Brazil.
錄入:尼科尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The new arrival was the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, who had once visited Bell’s school for deaf-mutes in Boston. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Brazil, said one gossip to another, with a grin--Brazil is St. John's Wood. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Up to this time, all the rubber was called Para rubber, named from the town of Para in Brazil, from which all rubber was shipped. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We see it also in the birds of the caves of Brazil. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The peanut, for example, contains 43% of fat, 30% of proteids, and only 17% of carbohydrates; the Brazil nut has 65% of fat, 17% of proteids, and only 9% of carbohydrates. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This didn't pay, so he started a restaurant in Pernambuco, Brazil. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nor can we tell much more of the swift spread of Spanish adventurers over the rest of America, outside the Portuguese reservation of Brazil. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Lund and Clausen in the caves of Brazil. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Wales, a merchant of Boston, conceived the idea of sending American boot and shoe lasts to Brazil for use in place of their clay models. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In that year the emperor was quietly packed off to Paris, and Brazil came into line with the rest of the continent. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expedition--never died there--never lived there--never was there at all. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- When first collecting in the fresh waters of Brazil, I well remember feeling much surprise at the similarity of the fresh-water insects, shells, etc. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The Brazils, Portugal, Sicily, were all overstocked by nearly two years' consumption. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It would amount to more than ?2,600,000 a year, which is more than the Brazils are supposed to afford. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was more than a hundred years after the first settlement of the Brazils, before any silver, gold, or diamond mines, were discovered there. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
錄入:昆西