Gibbon
['gɪb(ə)n] or ['ɡɪbən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies.
(noun.) English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794).
布伦达編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Hylobate, long-armed ape.
桃乐茜編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a genus of tailless anthropoid apes with very long arms natives of the East Indies.
汉克整理
例句/造句/用法:
- This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gibbon, because of his anti-Christian animus, is hostile to Constantine; but he admits that he was temperate and chaste. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Carroll, of Gibbon's division, moved at a double quick with his brigade and drove back the enemy, inflicting great loss. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Mott followed Birney, and Gibbon was held in reserve. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Gibbon commanded Hancock's left, and was ordered to attack, but was not able to accomplish much. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Gibbon,[295] however, is of opinion that there was a valid marriage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But, as Gibbon points out, our information as to its severity is of very doubtful value. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gibbon couples the Justinian epidemic with the great comet of 531, and with the very frequent and serious earthquakes of that reign. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Haroun-al-Raschid, says Gibbon, sent Charlemagne by his ambassadors a splendid tent, a water clock, an elephant, and the keys of the Holy Sepulchre. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gibbon was not so fortunate in his front. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Gibbon was placed to the right of Warren, and Birney in his rear as a reserve. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Gibbon's account of the manners and morals of John XII takes refuge at last beneath a veil of Latin footnotes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We have quoted again and again in this history from Gibbon's _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They destroyed, Gibbon notes, the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, and the town of Bremen. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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