Highlands
['hailəndz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse).
弗洛西錄入--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- A hospitality nearly of the same kind was exercised not many years ago in many different parts of the Highlands of Scotland. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You might have come straight from chambers in the Temple,' instead of having been two months in the Highlands! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- After leaving Memphis, there are no such highlands coming to the water's edge on the east shore until Vicksburg is reached. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We will go to the Highlands. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And should we not be happy, Caroline, in the Highlands? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Three shillings a-week, the same price, very nearly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland, for a mother who has born twenty children not to have two alive. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In countries which have little commerce, on the contrary, such as Wales, or the Highlands of Scotland, they are very common. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is impossible there should be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A crown, half a crown, a sheep, a lamb, was some years ago, in the Highlands of Scotland, a common rent for lands which maintained a family. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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