Province
['prɒvɪns] or ['prɑvɪns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the proper sphere or extent of your activities; 'it was his province to take care of himself'.
錄入:罗宾逊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
(n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
(n.) A region of country; a tract; a district.
(n.) A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.
(n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
(n.) Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.
达拉整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Territory, region, tract, domain, district.[2]. Dependency, colony.[3]. Business, employment, function, duty, charge, calling, office, part, post, capacity.
錄入:厄普顿
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Tract, region, department, section, sphere, domain, territory
ANT:Metropolis, centre, capital
弗朗辛校對
解釋/意思:
n. a portion of an empire or a state marked off for purposes of government: a part of a country as distinguished from the capital: the district over which a governor or an archbishop has jurisdiction: a region: a business or duty: a person's business or calling: a department of knowledge.—adj. Provin′cial relating to a province: belonging to a division of a country: local: showing the habits and manners of a province: unpolished: narrow.—n. an inhabitant of a province or country district: (R.C.) the superintendent of the heads of the religious houses in a province.—v.t. Provin′cialise to render provincial:—pr.p. provin′cialīsing; pa.p. provin′cialīsed.—ns. Provin′cialism a manner a mode of speech or a turn of thought peculiar to a province or a country district: a local expression: narrowness; Provincial′ity.—adv. Provin′cially.—Provincial letters a series of letters written (1656-57) by Pascal against the doctrines and policy of the Jesuits.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In December, 1762, a circumstance which caused great alarm in the province took place. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Artesian wells are named after the French Province of Artais, where they appear to have been first used on an extensive scale. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- No, no; not for a province of possession, not for a century of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You take me out of my province there, said he. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It has been so many years my province to give advice, that you cannot be surprized, Mr. Knightley, at this little remains of office. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The little that was left in the world, when all these deductions were made, it was Mrs General's province to varnish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Later, James was forbidden to publish the paper without submitting to the supervision of the Secretary of the Province. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the province of Holland, {Memoires concernant les Droits, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The disputes between the proprietaries and the people of the province continued in full force, although a war was raging on the frontiers. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Each province clung to its separate nationality and traditions, and the Huns spread from province to province. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The present baronet, a young man hitherto resident in a distant province, was unknown on his Yorkshire estate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There you will find great towns, rich provinces, honour, glory, riches. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Such levity is proper enough in the provinces, we make no doubt, but it ill suits the dignity of the metropolis. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the greater part of those provinces of France, which are called the countries of elections, the taille is of this kind. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But countries which contribute neither revenue nor military force towards the support of the empire, cannot be considered as provinces. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Some provinces are exempted from the exclusive sale of tobacco, which the farmers-general enjoy through the greater part of the kingdom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was as if they had tacitly agreed to take their different provinces. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There are some such even in the provinces which are said to be treated as foreign, particularly in the city of Marseilles. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Within two decades of the crucifixion this new religion was already attracting the attention of the Roman rulers in several provinces. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The live last are, in the greater part of the provinces, under farm. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For small transactions the various provinces were using perforated zinc and brass cash, but for larger there was nothing but stamped ingots of silver. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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