Local
['ləʊk(ə)l] or ['lokl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; 'the local seemed to take forever to get to New York'.
(adj.) relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; 'local taxes'; 'local authorities' .
(adj.) affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; 'local anesthesia' .
(adj.) of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; 'local customs'; 'local schools'; 'the local citizens'; 'a local point of view'; 'local outbreaks of flu'; 'a local bus line' .
黛朵錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
(n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
(n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
整理:佩吉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Topical.
简錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. of or belonging to a place: confined to a spot or district.—ns. Locale (lō-ké‹?prime;) a locality: the scene of some event; Localisā′tion.—v.t. Lō′calise to assign to a place: to refer a sensation in perception to some part of the body.—ns. Lō′calism the state of being local: affection for a place: provincialism; Local′ity existence in a place: position: district.—adv. Lō′cally.—v.t. Locāte′ to place: to set in a particular position: to designate the place of.—n. Locā′tion act of locating or placing: situation: (law) a leasing on rent.—adj. Lō′cātive (gram.) indicating place.—Local Government Acts a series of enactments instituting local self-government of the various counties of Great Britain and of a large number of boroughs; Local Option a phrase first used by Mr Gladstone in a letter in 1868 for the determination by vote of the people of a town or district as to whether licenses to sell intoxicating liquors shall be granted or not.
編輯:洛娜
例句/造句/用法:
- In those in which they take place, and are in farm, there are many local duties which do not extend beyond a particular town or district. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But he repeated sweetly: 'Some local irritation, ma'am? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The carbon being only slightly compressed will offer considerable resistance to the flow of current from the local battery, and therefore the signal on the local sounder will be weak. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Nomadism cuts men off from fixed temples and intense local associations; they take a broader and simpler view of the world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The poles of the electromagnet in the local circuit are hollowed out and filled up with carbon disks or powdered plumbago. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When current is made, the relay attracts an armature, which thereby closes a circuit in a local battery and thus causes a click of the sounder. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- By a great amount of persistence I got permission from my mother to go on the local train as a newsboy. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He had an abnormally large but well-shaped head, and it is said that the local doctors feared he might have brain trouble. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I knew this meant, in our local dialect, like two young thrushes, and received it as a compliment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I remember once speaking to a local boss about woman suffrage. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The first letters he read were very formal, very carefully written and dealt almost entirely with local happenings. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Therefore, a local fanatic would begin with them. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds--no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The other servants were soon alarmed, and we sent for the local police, who instantly communicated with London. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yes, I've gone through a good deal; but nothing ever came amiss to me after I joined the Locals in four. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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