Tributary
['trɪbjʊt(ə)rɪ] or ['trɪbjə'tɛri]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) paying tribute; 'a tributary colony' .
(adj.) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream .
朱厄尔錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
(a.) Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
(a.) Paid in tribute.
(a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
(n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
校對:普拉特
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Subject, subordinate, required to pay tribute.[2]. Contributing.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Subject, subordinate, inferior, dependent, accessory, auxiliary
ANT:Independent, unsubdued, unconquered, unreduced
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例句/造句/用法:
- There I was told the island belonged to Turkey, as the Greek tributary islands only extend as far down as Santorin. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The king of Judah became an Egyptian tributary. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They had long subjugated the Alani, and now they made the Ostrogoths, the east Goths, tributary. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She might be firm, but only by relationship, and in an inferior and tributary degree. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The area of the water-shed tributary to the lake is 1,320 square miles. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Kieff was destroyed in 1240, and nearly all Russia became tributary to the Mongols. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But it did not include Korea, which was conquered and made tributary by his son. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His abominations roused his Indian tributary princes to revolt, and he was overthrown (528). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And in such form Mr. Bucket shall find him, when he will, still pervading the tributary channels of Leicester Square. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I was still giddy with the shock of my mother's death, and in a kind of stunned state as to all tributary things. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The buildings are usually grouped together at a favorable spot on the banks of the Amazon or one of its tributaries. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Some of these cliff dwellings may still be seen in the valleys of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado and its tributaries. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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