Valley
['vælɪ] or ['væli]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
整理:米切尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
(n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
校對:谢尔曼
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Vale, dale, bottom, dell, dingle, ravine.
艾琳編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a vale or low land between hills or mountains: a low extended plain usually watered by a river:—pl. Vall′eys.
手打:米米
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To find yourself walking through green and pleasant valleys, foretells great improvements in business, and lovers will be happy and congenial. If the valley is barren, the reverse is predicted. If marshy, illness or vexations may follow.
整理:斯图
例句/造句/用法:
- She wanted to plunge on and on, till she came to the end of the valley of snow. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To the eastward lies the Valley of the Jordan and beyond it the mountains of Gilead. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There were clouds over the lake and over the valley. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- My purpose was to have him attack Early, or drive him out of the valley and destroy that source of supplies for Lee's army. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A cold wind was coming down the Rhone Valley. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- As I had predicted, Early was soon found in front of Sheridan in the valley, and Pennsylvania and Maryland were speedily freed from the invaders. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Troops from Lookout Valley carried the point of the mountain, and now hold the eastern slope and a point high up. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Organization of the Army of the Valley District. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Her course was in the direction of the small undying fire which had drawn the attention of the men on Rainbarrow and of Wildeve in the valley below. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It is called Death Valley because a party of emigrants perished there in 1849. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- You will see the Otz Valley directly. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This lower country of the Euphrates-Tigris valleys had little or no stone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We heard that Germans and Austrians had broken through in the north and were coming down the mountain valleys toward Cividale and Udine. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The water lies between two very sharp slopes, with little branch valleys, and God knows where the drift will take you. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- My first real knowledge of myself was as an unprotected orphan among the valleys and fells of Cumberland. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Vast areas to the west and northwest which are now under the Atlantic waters were then dry land; the Irish Sea and the North Sea were river valleys. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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.
- The high lands are used for grazing purposes, and rich agricultural lands are found in many of the valleys. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He hemmed the beasts into valleys and enclosures where he could be sure to find them again. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These elements grew up and became distinct one from another in the great river valleys of the world in the course of five or six thousand years. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Romansh, Italian, and French-speaking valleys were presently added to this valiant little republican group. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:米莉