| 单词 | border |
| 释义 | border (bɔːʳdəʳ ) Word forms: borders , bordering , bordered 1. countable noun B1 The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line. They fled across the border. ...the isolated jungle area near the Panamanian border. Clifford is enjoying life north of the border. ...the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Soldiers had temporarily closed the border between the two countries. Synonyms: frontier, line, marches, limit 2. verb A country that borders another country, a sea, or a river is next to it. ...the European and Arab countries bordering the Mediterranean. [VERB noun] Synonyms: adjoin, be situated alongside, join, touch Border on means the same as border. Both republics border on the Black Sea. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. countable noun A border is a strip or band around the edge of something. ...pillowcases trimmed with a hand-crocheted border. Synonyms: edge, lip, margin, skirt 4. countable noun In a garden, a border is a long strip of ground along the edge planted with flowers. ...a lawn flanked by wide herbaceous borders. ...border plants. Synonyms: flower bed, area, garden, bed 5. verb If something is bordered by another thing, the other thing forms a line along the edge of it. ...the mile of white sand beach bordered by palm trees and tropical flowers. [VERB-ed] Caesar marched north into the forests that border the Danube River. [VERB noun] Synonyms: edge, bound, decorate, trim Phrasal verbs: border on 1. phrasal verb If you talk about a characteristic or situation bordering on something, usually something that you consider bad, you mean that it is almost that thing. He has never exhibited the self-confidence, bordering on arrogance, of his predecessor. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The atmosphere borders on the surreal. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. See also border [sense 2] Collocations: border checkpoint There used to be a border checkpoint at the summit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With the opening of the border checkpoint in 1997, the emigration came to an end. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A railway could become international, and without a border checkpoint, the line would become useless. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The detainee was then driven around the border checkpoint on a motorcycle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our border checkpoints must be adequately staffed. The Sun The two have been at odds since a 1998-2000 border conflict, in which some 70,000 died. Times, Sunday Times The border conflict cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1972 a small proxy border conflict was resolved with negotiations, where it was declared unification would eventually occur. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After the border conflict of 1995, the two countries began diplomatic negotiations, resulting in the 1998 peace treaty that established the exact location of the international border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In time, small border conflicts grew between the government houses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It must at least double the resources devoted to border control. Times, Sunday Times But 'leave' campaigners also seek to frame the debate as one of border control. Times, Sunday Times Our prosperity now hinges on politicians with the vision to not merely grasp the nettle of border control. The Sun The cleaners are also believed to have worked in border control offices. Times, Sunday Times The issues at question had nothing to do with the pilot but focused on day-to-day border control where the unexpected sometimes happens. Times, Sunday Times On that morning they put on their running shoes and got in a taxi to take them near to the border crossing. The Sun It's where you're essentially playing the border crossing guard and you're responsible for deciding who gets in and who doesn't. Times, Sunday Times A border crossing was opened to trade in 2006 for the first time since the war. Times, Sunday Times The knotted strands were collected from the commuters and displayed on a billboard at the border crossing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You'll also be spared the jams at the border crossing - it gets extremely busy, especially in the private-car lanes. Times, Sunday Times The charges will sour already difficult relations between the north and south, who have failed to agree on key issues including border demarcation and oil revenues. Times, Sunday Times A 2009 report said, a lack of funding has greatly hindered border demarcation efforts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two nations concluded a land border demarcation agreement in 1999. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One necessary solution will be to think internationally - to continue to imagine the history of the novel independent of border demarcations. The Times Literary Supplement The border fence was for many the cause to fight, or at least document. Houston Chronicle There have been 60 mass border fence crossings so far this year, compared to 38 all last year. The Sun This was actually our favourite game in the orchard - throwing apples at the border fence, and watching tanks zone in. Times, Sunday Times We came to the border fence and scrambled up a 20ft bank to find thick iron bars reaching 30ft above us and 20ft down the other side. Times, Sunday Times It's about another 300 yards to the border fence. The Sun Its clients there are mostly commercial, but its government contracts include border protection. Times, Sunday Times As with his predecessors and successors, he thought little of spending money on border protection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They entered service during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and are primarily used on border protection duties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The government was able to portray itself as strong on border protection measures and opponents as weak. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Battalions who were called up during this period were called up for 60 days at a time for border protection duties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the border provinces did have the lowest average income among all the southern provinces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Food levies were raised without regard to fairness, ruining the border provinces where the military was mainly based. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These provinces were often the strategically located border provinces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first class were the border provinces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I was lucky to live in a border town. Times, Sunday Times The new situation, being a border town, caused problems for the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The border town was prosperous and its assets were highly valued by all forces during the revolution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The village survived through its role as a border town (providing warehouses and inns) along with income from agriculture and paper mills. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, its importance declined after it became a border town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They arrived in the famous border village like thousands of couples before them; cheeks flushed with excitement and with eyes only for each other. Times, Sunday Times Both sides take, lose, and retake a border village countless times during the entire movie. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For a number of decades, a brisk border trade has been carried out unofficially at this border village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thousands more have crowded into nearby border villages ready to flee. Times, Sunday Times It's mainly the local traders from the surrounding border villages who hold the trade permits and only 29 items can be traded without attracting customs duties. Outlook India The rendezvous site was in a restricted border zone, crawling with security and military personnel. Times, Sunday Times Cops and military police controlled entry to the border zone and blocked access to outsiders. The Sun He said that some patients appeared to fall into a 'border zone' between the two states, highlighting the problem of clear diagnosis. Times, Sunday Times Despite this, the sound of gunfire and shelling could be clearly heard along the border zone last night. Times, Sunday Times Flares were dropped to illuminate the border zone. Times, Sunday Times How soon can we close that border anyway? Globe and Mail A rapidly growing number of countries have closed their borders at short notice, leaving holidaymakers stranded. Times,Sunday Times Neighbouring countries are closing their borders, quarantining a pariah state. Times,Sunday Times While other countries closed their borders, it was the one place in the entire world where anyone could enter without passports, visas, or fees. Christianity Today Largely the fact that countries around the world are going into lockdown and closing their borders as a result of the pandemic. Times,Sunday Times Things get more muscular once you cross the border. Times, Sunday Times But any team will get upset if you cross the border against them, and not accidentally, just for fun. Times, Sunday Times When they cross my border, they have to submit their passports to me for checks. The Sun This avoids doubling back and means you cross the border only once. Times, Sunday Times Neither side talks to the other and it's impossible for anyone to cross the border inside the zone. Times, Sunday Times They were powerful and wealthy men who had the resources to defend the border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Alliances are defined by their readiness to defend their borders. Times, Sunday Times They want to weaken the rights of member states to defend their borders. Times, Sunday Times They are also highly territorial, and fiercely defend their borders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Pied babblers are strongly territorial, and defend their borders using wing and vocal displays on a near daily basis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These ligaments are important in that they define the border movements, or in other words, the farthest extents of movements, of the mandible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We're getting used to the idea that design and art are overlapping territories, with no easily defined borders. Times, Sunday Times The middle of the riverbed at the time the borders were established was the line to define the borders between cities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Furthermore, many trading routes that went through the newly defined borders from various parts of the pre-war kingdom were abandoned. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Numerous attempts were made to define the borders, but both governments could not come to an agreement acceptable to their constituencies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Buildings shook 30 miles away in Egypt as the desert border was pounded with huge munitions. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The ' smuggling legend 'was part of huge trafficking network helping at least 100 people, including jihadists, to cross into Libya illegally every day across poorly guarded desert borders. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They pay smugglers up to 750 to cross the desert border into southern Libyan towns such as Qatrun, Sabha and Kufra. Times, Sunday Times (2016) But they have been sighted less than 100 km (60 miles) from the state's eastern border. Times, Sunday Times The proximity of the eastern border has been an important factor in the history of the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He collected an army on the eastern border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lowland slightly tilted to the northeast, dropping to 130 m at the eastern border region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The railroad also makes the eastern border of the village as well. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their architectural grey/green foliage dotted with artichoke heads looks good in large pots beside a sunny front door or in a flower border. Times, Sunday Times How about a blackcurrant with dark leaves attractive enough to be grown in the flower border alongside a darkleaved sweetcorn? The Sun He has made a start but just on the flower border. The Sun I want to use alpine strawberries as edging in a flower border. Times, Sunday Times In fact if you want a long-season flower border it's sometimes easier to stick to perennials front and back: the classic herbaceous border. Times, Sunday Times Use them as houseplants, grow them in containers outside or try the new trend of planting them in a garden border. Times,Sunday Times Most varieties are easy to grow in pots and you can either keep it in a container on the patio or plunge the pot in the garden border. The Sun This compact lavender makes a great garden border or patio plant, the delicate purple flowers attract bees and other insects, they also make great cut flowers. The Sun And once they've bloomed plant them out in your garden borders and you can enjoy them for years to come. The Sun Some were introduced as decorative additions to garden borders, others appear to have arrived from nowhere, found a comfortable home and filled it. Times, Sunday Times By its internal border with the outer edge of the adductor longus. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The crisis threatened to develop into military confrontation as both sides mobilized their forces at the internal border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Internal borders are subject to minimal or non-existent controls and usually allow citizens to travel without having to show passports. Times, Sunday Times Most internal borders were kept unchanged from the colonial period, generally following natural features such as rivers and mountain ridges. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This tribal-based theory suggested that external borders were weak or non-existent and that there were clear-cut internal borders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A shift in rhetoric isn’t the only way that international border disputes impact ecology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Together they form a tight-knit community along the world's longest undefended international border. Globe and Mail An array of road signs offering money exchange, fireworks and petrol, announce that an international border has been crossed. Times, Sunday Times We weren't trying to slip unnoticed across an international border. Times, Sunday Times Both sides declared that the boundary was not an international border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such considerations could apply to land borders too, but they haven't precluded compromise. Times, Sunday Times They have land borders with it and a concern about the strategic implications of any changes on the peninsula. Times, Sunday Times They have it endemically or it comes over their land borders. Times, Sunday Times The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rest consists of the hills and mountains that form the land borders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lift them onto a non-stick baking sheet and mark a border about 1cm from the edge (but don't cut right through the pastry). The Sun The mission has remained in place in order to formally mark the border between the two countries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This gorge marks the border between oceanic plates as they are pulled apart by vast geological forces, allowing the magma to rise. Times, Sunday Times It contained numerous errors and marked the border itself with a 4-millimetre line that covered '800 meters on the ground'. The Times Literary Supplement At the back of the village, a mountain path leads past oak, fig and olive trees along the side of a deep, verdant gorge that marks the border. Times, Sunday Times The non-climbing forms make a dramatic impact in a mixed border. Times, Sunday Times Once the flowers have passed, green leaves provide excellent (if unglamorous) foliage in a mixed border. Times, Sunday Times Plant this rounded 1.5m shrub in a mixed border, in full sun or partial shade, or plant several together for a beautiful flowering hedge. Times, Sunday Times Tubers bought in mixed packs are perfect for drifting around to naturalise in a mixed border or beneath shrubs. Times, Sunday Times If it's a mixed border of shrubs and perennials, then the filigree plants can fill the gaps between the shrubs, making a gauzy screen. Times, Sunday Times But its underlying sentiment transcends every national border. Times, Sunday Times But if we do that, there won't be time to see the castle, five miles north-northwest of us, on the far side of a national border. Times,Sunday Times There are many good arguments for tightening our national border controls. The Sun They were considered one village until the national border was drawn in 1809. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All testing was to be driven underground, just so long as the radioactivity did not go beyond the national border of the testing country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Patrols have sealed some sections of the country's northern border. Times, Sunday Times A towering wall blocks the full northern border, so visitors are required to enter by boat. Christianity Today However, this week's fighting has been in the northern border region. Times,Sunday Times They were arguing about the constitution and building the podium for 30 heads of state right up to the last moment, and the northern border remains disputed and insecure. Times, Sunday Times The research showed that there were 440 billion cubic metres of gas and 219 million tonnes of oil in the new fields, close to the country's northern border. Times, Sunday Times They argue that there are technical alternatives to the backstop that could replace the current plan and keep an open border. Times, Sunday Times What this country offered was not something abstract, an open border or a theory of freedom, it was something concrete: security, safety, democracy, the rule of law. Times, Sunday Times Both countries have a major economic stake in an open border. Globe and Mail An open border would allow all to approach its heights. Times, Sunday Times It contained monitoring and control equipment to open border gates remotely, turn on and off fence lighting and alert lights, rotate searchlights and so on. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Soldiers would also patrol the state borders and help at testing facilities. Times,Sunday Times (2020) America has used drones to patrol the border and to observe crowds at sporting events. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Courts therefore have the duty to patrol the constitutional borders defined by the constitution. ST (2009) Low-growing sedums are often used for containers and troughs, with their zingy flowers appearing later in the summer, but you can also plant border varieties for their foliage. Times, Sunday Times Another problem came with planting the borders round the lake. Times, Sunday Times Are you after someone who will mow the lawn and trim the hedges, leaving you to do the fun bits, like seed sowing and planting borders? Times, Sunday Times The two countries share more than 600 miles of porous border. Times, Sunday Times Barbed wire and the withholding of medical treatment and education will not stop the nightly crossings of a porous border. Christianity Today Contraband flows from one territory to another depending on supply and demand along the shared porous border of 1375mi km. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This brings the trio into a discussion of the porous border between fact and fable in historians' writing of the day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Logically, it makes little sense to favour deregulation as well as stable communities, or redistribution as well as porous borders. Times, Sunday Times We still have two villages and six to seven kilometres to completely seal the border. Times, Sunday Times The military government sealed the borders, imposed curfews and disconnected the telephone lines. The Times Literary Supplement We can only hope those countries that are affected have managed to seal their borders. The Sun Dictators seal their borders, preventing those pining for freedom from leaving while keeping out the contamination of new ideas. Times, Sunday Times The country's neighbours sealed their borders. Times,Sunday Times The resolution called on the government to secure the border and then provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Christianity Today Soldiers have been sent to secure the border, stalled talks mean that the vote will not take place in a key disputed region and the future remains worryingly uncertain. Times, Sunday Times It's time to secure the borders and let no more in. The Sun He told the army to secure the borders and maintain calm within the country in homage to the memory of the illustrious late leader. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He ruled for 67 years and spent much of the time trying to secure the borders of the kingdom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An orchard, small nuttery or shrub border would be perfect. Times, Sunday Times Start forking your veg plots, flower beds and shrub borders and use generous amounts of soil conditioner. Times, Sunday Times A network of paths through rolling lawns, shrubs borders and mature trees link these facilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He constructed two large lakes, the smaller ornamental ponds and a bathing pool. 35 acres were devoted to ornamental gardens and shrub borders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To the south of the house are yew hedges, shrub borders and steps leading up to a further area of mature wooded garden with two greenhouses and a sunken dell. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Personally, it sticks in my craw to be told that those of us on the wrong side of the border have nothing to say. Times, Sunday Times We need to prepare for further surges of people who may be on the other side of the border. The Sun However, the media should be careful not to stir up fans on either side of the border. The Sun The ceremony was cancelled, however, amid the deteriorating security situation on either side of the border. Times, Sunday Times Divisions either side of the border have not helped. Times, Sunday Times The biggest rebel victory of the week came on the city's southern border. Times, Sunday Times The president has continued to warn of a humanitarian disaster at the southern border. Times, Sunday Times On the positive side, however, some fast-growing trees planted along the southern border might be enough to shield the house from the gaze of others within a few years. Times, Sunday Times He talked for 45 minutes, repeating his pledge to build a wall - 'a real wall, not a toy wall like we have now' - along the southern border. Times, Sunday Times We need look no further than our southern border. Houston Chronicle Both straddle the border between dance and rock, not always comfortably. Times, Sunday Times One archdiocese, and three dioceses straddle the border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The glaciers, permanent snow cover and permafrost straddling the border have been shrinking steadily, and especially over the past five years. Times, Sunday Times The 102-year-old library and the town opera house are in a single building that straddles the border. Globe and Mail The house straddled the border, so we had two addresses, with northern water and southern electricity. Times, Sunday Times In a sunny border or the more relaxed space of a wildflower meadow, plant meadow cranesbill. Times, Sunday Times Plant them over the next few weeks in well-drained soil in a sunny border, 9in to 12in apart. Times, Sunday Times Ideal for a sunny border or container, the combination of glowing yellow foliage and blue flowers will light up your garden. The Sun Ideal for the front of a sunny border or set farther back to be glimpsed through wispy grasses. Times, Sunday Times Can you suggest a good vegetable to grow in a dry, sunny border? Times, Sunday Times An open territorial border allows free movement of people between two different countries or between a group of countries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This prehistoric fortification of raised earthworks and palisades, on south facing inclines of drumlin hills, has long been regarded as a defensive formation and territorial border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Beyond more hedges, the territorial borders are firmly drawn. Times, Sunday Times Not only did it define the territorial borders of the respective peoples, it also afforded security and furthered trade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The effects of the 'peace deal' he struck with local chiefs on his western border three weeks ago are already clear, and they are shocking. Times, Sunday Times An unnamed hill on the town's western border also tops 350 feet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A moat was dug to protect the city's western border, on which new city walls and fortifications were built. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Natural hazards: periodic droughts, floods; dust storms, sandstorms; earthquakes along western border and in the northeast. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It would lose divisions, and brigades to the western border. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 边界, 与…接壤, 饰边 Japanese: 境界, 隣接する, 縁 |
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