Westminster
[ˈwestminstə] or ['wɛst,mɪnstər]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
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例句/造句/用法:
- When that man was a boy, he went to Westminster School. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Telford was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1757, and died in Westminster in 1834. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It may be worth thinking of by Fawners of all denominations--in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's Cathedral put together, on any Sunday in the year. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I saw a man examined as a witness in Westminster Hall. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Godolphin Street, Westminster, is only a few minutes' walk from Whitehall Terrace. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- In the evening, Adrian and I proceeded to Westminster. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- William Caxton, an English merchant, learned the new art while he was traveling in Germany, and when he returned home started a press at Westminster with a partner named Wynken de Worde. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was at Westminster that the cause was to come on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If he takes me by the hand and leads me through Westminster Hall in an airy procession after fortune, I must go. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This made us some quarter of an hour late, and when we came to Westminster Hall we found that the day's business was begun. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He learnt that they had departed from his royal city of Westminster and taken refuge in the city of London (see chap. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The mind would recoil from Westminster to the customs of Benin. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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