Oasis
[əʊ'eɪsɪs] or [o'esɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
編輯:陌莉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
校對:内尔
解釋/意思:
n. a fertile spot in a sandy desert: any place of rest or pleasure in the midst of toil and gloom:—pl. Oases (ō-ā′sēz).
丹尼校對
例句/造句/用法:
- It is no sandy plain, nor any circumscribed and scant oasis I seem to realize. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He travelled four hundred miles to the remote oasis of the oracle of Ammon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Miss Summerson, said Mr. Guppy, rising, this is indeed an oasis. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The priests of Ammon Ra, about the time of the XVIIIth or XIXth Dynasty (_circa_ 1400 B.C.), had set up in an oasis of the desert a temple and oracle. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This house has been an oasis. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Damascus is simply an oasis--that is what it is. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:梅勒妮