Nomad
['nəʊmæd] or ['nomæd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
埃莉整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
(a.) Roving; nomadic.
手打:鲁迪
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Wandering tribe, nomadic people.[2]. Wanderer, BOOLY.
科林整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pastoral, vagrant, Arab, Scythian, roving, migratory
ANT:Fixed, unwandering, agricultural, unroving, urban
盖尔校對
解釋/意思:
n. one of a tribe that wanders about in quest of game or of pasture for their flocks.—adj. Nomad′ic of or for the feeding of cattle: pastoral: pertaining to the life of nomads: wandering: unsettled: rude.—adv. Nomad′ically.—v.i. Nom′adise to lead a nomadic or vagabond life.—n. Nom′adism the state of being nomadic: habits of nomads.
錄入:鲁道夫
例句/造句/用法:
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In most of us, irked by its conventions and complexities, there stirs the nomad strain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The nomad was not simply an uncivilized man, he was a man specialized and specializing along his own line. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was a nomad of the savage school, and he created an empire of desolation from North India to Syria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This hostility exacerbated the natural discord of nomad and townsman. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From the very beginning of history the nomad and the settled people have been in reaction. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- China has to tell a long history of border warfare and of graver struggles between the settled and nomad peoples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nomad peoples also range very widely. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Chief among these new nomad tribes were the Ukraine Cossacks on the Dnieper and the Don Cossacks on the Don. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The settled sort began to rely more and more upon grain for food; the nomad began to make a greater use of milk for food. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Semitic nomads of the Arabian desert seem also to have had a heliolithic stage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The townsmen despise and cheat the nomads, the nomads ill-treat and despise the townsfolk. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were not nomads. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They became a weapon against the dwindling power of the Mongolian nomads, first in Turkestan and then across Siberia as far as the Amur. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They are primitive nomads in an excited state, because they have just come upon civilization, and regard it as an opportunity for war and loot. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Wells were stopped up and pastures destroyed by the nomads. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These streams of nomads flowed by Persia on either side. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nomads without central grazing lands must disperse; nothing else is possible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A second great thrust by China began about 75 A.D., and accelerated the westward drift of the nomads. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Down pour the united nomads on the unwarlike, unarmed plains, and there ensues a war of conquest. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We must tell now who this prophet was who had arisen among the nomads and traders of the Arabian desert. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The drift of the nomads before this Chinese thrust, century by century, turned southward at first towards Bactria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In contrast with the settled folk, the agriculturists, these nomads lived freely and dangerously. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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