| 单词 | earth-rind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-rind earth-rind n. [compare German Erdrinde, scientific term for the earth's crust (mid 18th cent.)] chiefly literary (now rare) the earth's crust; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > crust crust1555 sole1610 shella1704 earth-rind1827 subshell1906 1827 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 491 In the ante-diluvian Ages..the Earth-rind on which they [sc. men] lived, might have been like a Pewter warming-plate. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 8 On what a bottomless volcano..separated from us by a thin earth-rind, Society..in the present epoch, rests! 1871 G. Hartwig Subterranean World i. 5 The history of the earth-rind opens to us a vista into time. 1941 G. Schuster & G. Wint India & Democracy i. xi. 210 The problem in India is to remake its political system without letting loose one of these fiery outbreaks. But the Earth-rind is dangerously thin. < as lemmas |
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