Easterly
['iːstəlɪ] or ['istɚli]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) from the east; used especially of winds; 'an eastern wind'; 'the winds are easterly' .
(adj.) lying in or toward the east; 'the east side of New York'; 'eastern cities' .
(adv.) from the east; 'the winds blew easterly all night'.
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解釋/意思:
(a.) Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
(a.) Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.
(adv.) Toward, or in the direction of, the east.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Hancock who had the lead had marched easterly to Guiney's Station, on the Fredericksburg Railroad, thence southerly to Bowling Green and Milford. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Whether from too much east wind or no--it was an easterly corner--the stall, the stock, and the keeper, were all as dry as the Desert. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In the Galapagos Arch ipelago he found only one species of terrestrial mammal, a new species of mouse, and that only on the most easterly island of the group. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- And so the little Jell--I had my doubts about 'em--are in a--oh, Lord, yes, it's easterly! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Our wagon trains had been ordered easterly of the roads the troops were to march upon before the movement commenced. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When I am deceived or disappointed in--the wind, and it's easterly, I take refuge here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It has made the south wind easterly, I don't know how often. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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