American
[ә'merikәn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of the United States.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas; 'the American hemisphere'; 'American flora and fauna' .
(adj.) of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture; 'American citizens'; 'American English'; 'the American dream' .
校對:洛丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
編輯:西尔维亚
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to America esp. to the United States.—n. a native of America.—v.t. Amer′icanise to render American.—n. Amer′icanism a custom characteristic word phrase or idiom peculiar to Americans: condition of being an American citizen: devotion to American institutions.
編輯:米考伯
例句/造句/用法:
- Live the American Garibaldi, said Rinaldi. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The history of Panama is American history purely. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He's an American, one of the other captains said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There is a vein of mysticism in American life, and Mr. Bryan is its uncritical prophet. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It was an average body of American citizens aroused to action by an obvious evil. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Its first public exhibition was about the latter part of January, 1878, before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, at New York. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Holly converter, covered by United States patents No. 86,303, and No. 86,304, January 26, 1869, represented one of the most important American developments of the Bessemer converter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Few Americans know how great has been this influence on English political history for the last twenty years. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Rum is a very important article in the trade which the Americans carry on to the coast of Africa, from which they bring back negro slaves in return. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Will there be other Americans besides yourself? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There are many Americans there, and they give it in honor of the day. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The Loyalist movement that took to Nova Scotia so many Americans after the War of Independence carried with it John, the son of this stalwart Continental. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yet the defects of the great political system created by the Americans of the revolutionary period did not appear at once. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This ferment in the political ideas of the Americans was started by English leaven. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- San Antonio was about equally divided in population between Americans and Mexicans. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The Hungarians, the Germans, the Austrians, the Swiss, the English and the Americans have all invented useful forms of these rollers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- We Americans always use the word in that limited sense. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Early in November British troops were in Valenciennes and Americans in Sedan. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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