Tropical
['trɒpɪk(ə)l] or ['trɑpɪkl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; 'tropical weather' .
(adj.) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense .
(adj.) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); 'tropical islands'; 'tropical fruit' .
(adj.) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; 'tropical year' .
手打:索菲--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
(n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
克劳德特錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Of the tropics.[2]. Figurative, metaphorical, not literal.
編輯:瑞伊
例句/造句/用法:
- Odd vases made by his own hand from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In this region, where the annual rainfall exceeds forty inches, and in some localities is almost tropical, the young student's atte ntion was early drawn to meteorology. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is simply impossible to imagine Edison working out the phonograph, telephone, and incandescent lamp under the tropical climes he sought. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There would have been a perpetual campaign to Americanize Australia and New Zealand, and yet another claimant for a share in tropical Africa. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was taken to Plymouth, and from Plymouth straight to the lonely tropical island of St. Helena. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At intervals the rain would pour down in streams, followed in not many minutes by a blazing, tropical summer's sun. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- No moon was yet in the heavens, but the dark blue vault was bright with innumerable stars, large and mellow, like tropical constellations. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The country through which we passed, between these two towns, is tropical in climate and productions and rich in scenery. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The great necessity for more durable carbons became a desideratum so urgent that the tireless inventor decided to commission another explorer to search the tropical jungles of the Orient. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- These specimens will prove conclusively that food sent from a tropical climate retains its freshness and delicate flavor. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
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