Earthly
['ɜːθlɪ] or ['ɝθli]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; 'earthly beings'; 'believed that our earthly life is all that matters'; 'earthly love'; 'our earthly home' .
校對:特伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.
(a.) Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
(a.) Made of earth; earthy.
(adv.) In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
贝丽尔整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Terrestrial.[2]. Sensual, sordid, worldly, low, grovelling, vile, base, gross, earthly-minded, earth-born, not spiritual.
整理:康拉德
例句/造句/用法:
- Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It was good logic, good, earthly, feminine logic, and if it satisfied her I certainly could pick no flaws in it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was not earthly; for I have seen nothing on earth like it: so pale, so still, and so expressive. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Knoxville was of no earthly use to him while Chattanooga was in our hands. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Ideas of earthly superiority are educational, not innate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Twice we crossed the famous Martian waterways, or canals, so-called by our earthly astronomers. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- That, Monsieur, I can never tell, because I do not know how long it will be before I shall cease to remember everything earthly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Earth was past,--and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The rain beat strongly against the panes, the wind blew tempestuously: One lies there, I thought, who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The passions, by being too much conversant with earthly objects, can never fix in us a proper composure and acquiescence of mind. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They also had an idea that they looked on the face of an earthly angel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The strength, agility, and blind ferocity of these two creatures is approached by nothing known to earthly man. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Not as a business matter, for these arrangements are usually verbal, and there was no earthly business reason why this should be an exception. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There is no earthly doubt that he is retaken. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The green Martians use no word corresponding in meaning with this earthly word. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- In Lydia's imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Wherefore, as above, we require you to send a priest to reconcile them to God, in doing which you shall render them the last earthly service. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- No earthly consideration would, at that moment, have shaken the resolution that was in me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I was alone with her, when her forlorn young head drooped gently on one side, and all her earthly wrongs and sorrows ended. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- This is the earthly punishment I have brought upon myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He loved her as something frail and earthly, yet almost worshipped her as something heavenly and divine. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I seek heavenly steadfastness in earthly monotony. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I said I wouldn't leave England, under existing circumstances, for any earthly consideration. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Oh, that death and sickness were banished from our earthly home! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
整理:康拉德