| 单词 | space-travelling | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasspace-travelling  b.   With present participles and related nouns, as  space-devouring,  space-filling,  space-occupying,  space-penetrating,  space-travelling,  space-wasting, etc. ΚΠ 1768    A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II.  iii. 505  				The all-space-filling Mundane soul.]			 1800    Philos. Trans. 90 81  				The space-penetrating power is no higher than what will suffice for the purpose. 1817    S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 		(Bohn)	 62  				The soul was a thinking substance, and the body a space-filling substance. 1839    P. J. Bailey Festus 326  				Space-pervading, oh! ye must be, Spirit-like, infinite. 1848    P. J. Bailey Festus 		(ed. 3)	 222  				Space-piercing shadow alighting on the face Of some fair planet. 1870    H. Spencer First Princ. 		(rev. ed.)	  ii. vi. §58. 187  				The space-occupying kind of force. 1907    W. James Let. 14 Feb. 		(1920)	 II. 265  				The magnificent space-devouring Subway roaring me back and forth. 1929    Science Jan. 2/1  				The telescope should be designed to give great space-penetrating power. 1934    C. Lambert Music Ho!  ii. 108  				His time travelling is like the space travelling of a character like Douglas Fairbanks. 1962    F. W. Householder in  F. W. Householder  & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 281  				Others objected to them as (a) space-wasting, (b) often irrelevant and unhelpful. 1979    J. Paton Sea of Rings xv. 122  				We've never encountered any other space-travelling civilisation. 1989    R. MacNeil Wordstruck i. 27  				Like David's treatment by the gluttonous waiter or the space-hogging passengers on the coach to London. 2007    Plymouth Evening Herald 		(Nexis)	 13 Apr. 45  				A mechanised, space-saving storage product, which uses underfloor cavities to maximise the living area in the home. < as lemmas | 
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