Iceland
['aislənd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle.
(noun.) an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944.
整理:雷蒙德--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- The Great Geyser and the New Geyser are the most remarkable ones in Iceland, where there are about a hundred altogether. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- By the thirteenth century the Hansa merchants were already sailing regularly from Bergen across the grey cold seas to the Northmen in Iceland. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Neither the Danish kingdom (which at that time included Norway and Iceland) nor the Swedes secured very much in the scramble. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hall next experimented with lava f rom Vesuvius, Etna, Iceland, and elsewhere, and found that it behaved like whinstone. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the tenth and eleventh centuries many of their sagas began to be written down in Iceland. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In 1819 he had announced that the plane of po lari zed light--for example, a ray passed through Iceland spar--is deflected to right or left by various chem ical substances. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Geysers were first observed in Iceland and the name, therefore, comes from that language, being derived from the word geysa, meaning to gush or rush forth. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The air was now dark with snow; an Iceland blast was driving it wildly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The method was also known to the old Celts, as shown by specimens found in Iceland. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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