Delaware
['deləwɛə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware.
(noun.) a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.
(noun.) one of the British colonies that formed the United States.
(noun.) a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay.
(noun.) a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
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例句/造句/用法:
- This was imported from England, and arrived in New York in May, 1829, and was tried in that year on a section of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s railroad. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In my youth, I was passenger in a little sloop descending the river Delaware. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The same year Oliver Evans used a stern paddle wheel boat on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- William Penn found that they had long been at work on the Delaware when he reached its shores in 1682. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Once, in a boat on the Delaware, with some other young men, he refused to row in his turn: I will be rowed home, said he. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In this predicament he ventured on the hazardous experiment of taking his steam-vessel by sea, and successfully accomplished his voyage from New York to Delaware. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- His lands are on navigable water, communicating with the Delaware, and but about 16 miles from this city. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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