Moor
[mɔː;mʊə]
[mɔː;mʊə] or [mʊr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.
(noun.) one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century.
(verb.) secure with cables or ropes; 'moor the boat'.
(verb.) come into or dock at a wharf; 'the big ship wharfed in the evening'.
(verb.) secure in or as if in a berth or dock; 'tie up the boat'.
克利夫顿錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
(n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
(n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
(n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
(v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
(v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
(v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
編輯:齐克
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Heath, extensive waste.[2]. Marsh, fen, swamp, bog, morass, slough, quagmire.
艾迪整理
解釋/意思:
n. a large tract of untilled ground often covered with heath and having a poor peaty soil: a heath.—ns. Moor′cock Moor′fowl the red grouse or heathcock found in moors; Moor′hen the female moor-fowl: the water-hen; Moor′-ill (Scot.) a kind of disease among cattle—also Red-water.—adjs. Moor′ish Moor′y resembling a moor: sterile: marshy: boggy.—n. Moor′land a tract of moor.
n. a member of the dark mixed Mauretanian and Arab race inhabiting Morocco and the Barbary coast: one of the Arab and Berber conquerors and occupants of Spain from 711 to 1492—same as Arab or Saracen: a dark-coloured person generally a negro.—n. Moor′ery a quarter inhabited by Moors.—adj. Moor′ish.
v.t. to fasten a ship by cable and anchor: to fix firmly.—v.i. to be fastened by cables or chains.—ns. Moor′age a place for mooring; Moor′ing act of mooring: that which serves to moor or confine a ship: in pl. the place or condition of a ship thus moored.
編輯:塞格雷
例句/造句/用法:
- Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The moor is before us now, and there is no life for many a mile round. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- After he had worked for three years at Willington he was induced to take the position of brakesman of the engine at the West Moor Colliery at Killingworth. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- There is a watercourse across the moor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Stone Lodge was situated on a moor within a mile or two of a great town—called Coketown in the present faithful guide-book. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- To Stilbro' Moor! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Moor who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca is entitled to high distinction. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Moors have some small silver coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Moors and Spaniards are foes forever now. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Condé, in his history of the Moors in Spain, speaks of them as used in that country as early as 1118. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Spain is the only nation the Moors fear. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Shirley said she liked the green sweep of the common turf, and, better still, the heath on its ridges, for the heath reminded her of moors. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Hundreds of Moors come to Tangier every year and embark for Mecca. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The first night that finds a small craft moored near the shore of Shador, I replied. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- But how will you know that any craft is moored near Shador? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The four machines can be moved to any part of the dock to which steamers are moored and four ships can be unloaded rapidly at one time. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Instead of this they were left moored to the ship's side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Against the walls he also moored ships in which towers and rams were erected. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A landing-place overshadowed by a willow, and a pleasure-boat lying moored there among some stakes, caught his eye as he passed along. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
錄入:罗兰