Territory
['terɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['tɛrətɔri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an area of knowledge or interest; 'his questions covered a lot of territory'.
(noun.) the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; 'American troops were stationed on Japanese soil'.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
(n.) The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
(n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
錄入:莱斯特
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Country, domain, district, quarter, province, land.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Province, region, domain, country
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解釋/意思:
n. the extent of land around or belonging to a city or state: domain: (U.S.) a portion of the country not yet admitted as a State into the Union and still under a provisional government.—adj. Territō′rial pertaining to territory: limited to a district.—v.t. Territō′rialise to enlarge by addition of territory: to reduce to the state of a territory.—ns. Territō′rialism a theory of church government according to which the ruler of a country has the natural right to rule also over the ecclesiastical affairs of his people; Territorial′ity the possession of territory.—adv. Territō′rially.—adj. Terr′itoried possessed of territory.
錄入:佩内洛普
例句/造句/用法:
- Suffice it to say that when Edison went boldly out into new territory, after something entirely unknown, he was quite prepared for hard work and exploration. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Does not this pierce your grandfather's territory? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There she would behold the tomb of her parents, and the territory filled with recollections of her father's glory. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Probably each of these original tribes was not more numerous altogether than the Indians in Hudson Bay Territory to-day. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There were quite a number of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The army it had to fight was the protection to the capital of a people which was attempting to found a nation upon the territory of the United States. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And by the great armies suddenly raised in that small territory they inhabited, it appears to have been very full of people. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Again, as to the devastation of Hellenic territory or the burning of houses, what is to be the practice? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The balance of the Southern territory, an empire in extent, was still in the hands of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- With motor trucks, merchants have extended their deliveries to reach territory they could not touch under the horse-delivery system. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- During the winter of 1852-3 the territory was divided, all north of the Columbia River being taken from Oregon to make Washington Territory. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The Carthaginians sent the hostages Rome demanded, they surrendered their arms, they prepared to surrender territory. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hevea trees are scattered through the dense forests of practically every part of the Amazon Basin, a territory more than two-thirds as large as the United States. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Hence the neutral territory between two representative species is generally narrow in comparison with the territory proper to each. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Consequently, the training is much more general; that is to say, it covers a wider territory and includes more factors. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We shall send a guard with you, to see you safe out of our territories. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Its fur is short, soft and silky; the best skins being brought from Russia, Sweden and Norway and Hudson Bay territories. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thereafter nothing held the Mongols in the Kharismian territories. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The still smaller territories of the duke of Parma are divided into three or four, each of which has, in the same manner, a system of its own. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- All they ask is the loot they take and transportation to their own territories when the fighting and the looting are over. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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