Globe
[gləʊb] or [ɡlob]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
(n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
(n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.
(n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.
(n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.
(v. t.) To gather or form into a globe.
手打:莱曼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Sphere, ball, orb.[2]. Earth, terraqueous globe, terrestrial ball.
杰瑞德校對
解釋/意思:
n. a ball: a round body a sphere: the earth: a sphere representing the earth (terrestrial globe) or the heavens (celestial globe): (obs.) a group.—v.t. to form in a circle.—ns. Globe′-fish one of a genus of fishes found in warm seas remarkable for its power of swelling out its body to a globular form; Globe′-flow′er a small paléŽrctic genus of plants of the order Ranunculace with a globe of large showy sepals enclosing the small inconspicuous linear petals; Globe′-trot′ter one who travels for pleasure around the world; Globe′-trot′ting; Glō′bin a proteid constituent of red blood corpuscles.—adjs. Glōbose′ Glōb′ous resembling a globe.—n. (Milt.) a globe.—n. Glōbos′ity.—adjs. Glob′ūlar Glob′ūlous Glob′ūlose like a globe: spherical.—n. Globūlar′ity.—adv. Glob′ūlarly.—ns. Glob′ūle a little globe or round particle—also Glob′ūlet; Glob′ūlin Glob′ūline a substance closely allied to albumen which forms the main ingredient of the blood globules and also occurs in the crystalline lens of the eye; Glob′ūlite the name given by Vogelsang to minute crystallites of spherical drop-like form.—adj. Glōb′y (Milt.) round.
校對:米里亚姆
娱乐性解釋/意思：
An all-round proposition which has furnished its shareholders a living for several thousand years, though its stock is two-thirds water.
以斯拉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He came close to her, and stood touching her, looking with her at the primrose-shining globe. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Steam admitted into the globe from the cauldron escaped through the side pipes, and its pressure on these pipes caused the globe to rotate. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He alleges a visible decrease of the human species which has never been made good in some of the fairest countries of the globe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Beside her was a mahogany stand bearing a cast bronze lamp with an engraved globe, over which a green paper shade had been balanced. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But you must have three weeks to do India properly, her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that he was no frivolous globe-trotter. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- We had tried to keep it out of the papers, but there was some rumor in the GLOBE last night. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Captain Marryatt writes: I do not know a spot on the globe which so much astonishes and delights upon first arrival as Madeira. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Its hope is that some man living at one place on the globe in a particular epoch will, through the miracle of genius, be able to generalize his experience for all time and all space. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- 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.
- In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Anaxagoras, greatly daring, thought the sun and moon were vast globes, so vast that the sun was probably as big as all the Peloponnesus. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- While glass is in the soft, yielding, pliable state, it is molded into dishes, bottles, and other useful objects, such as lamp shades, globes, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In the use of the globes both are proficients. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Fish globes magnify the fish that swim within. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I saw his astronomical instruments put to strange uses, his globes defaced, his papers covered with abstruse calculations destroyed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
丹尼校對