Geography
[dʒɪ'ɒgrəfɪ] or [dʒɪ'ɑɡrəfi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.
鲍里斯校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
校對:伦道夫
解釋/意思:
n. the science which describes the surface of the earth and its inhabitants: a book containing a description of the earth.—n. Geog′rapher.—adjs. Geograph′ic -al relating to geography.—adv. Geograph′ically.—Geographical distribution (see Distribution).—Descriptive geography that part of geography which consists in a statement of facts; Historical geography that part of geography which investigates the changes which have occurred in the governmental control of territory; Physical geography (see Physical); Political geography geography that gives an account of the different communities of mankind.
錄入:萨姆纳
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of studying geography, denotes that you will travel much and visit places of renown. See Atlas.
多拉編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I thought I was rather good at geography, but I never heard of the Island of Melnos before. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The science and description of the world on which we live are called respectively Geology and Geography. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They had no knowledge of geography beyond the range of the Mediterranean basin and the frontiers of Persia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The classic definition of geography as an account of the earth as the home of man expresses the educational reality. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Geography, as often taught, illustrates the former; mathematics, beyond the rudiments of figuring, the latter. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Geography and history are the two great school resources for bringing about the enlargement of the significance of a direct personal experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In one field of knowledge particularly we might have expected the Romans to have been alert and enterprising, and that was geography. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Geography, of course, has its educative influence in a counterpart connection of natural facts with social events and their consequences. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Geography is a topic that originally appeals to imagination--even to the romantic imagination. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
整理:卢修斯