| 单词 | the globe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe (also this) globe a. the (also this) globe: the earth. Also the globe of (the) earth, the globe of the world, the earthly globe, and similar phrases. Cf. ball n.1 4. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aij The hole globe of the world..hath been sayled aboute. 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Aiij Gods that rule the Skies, The Glope and eke the Element. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 96 We, the Globe, can compasse soone, Swifter then the wandring Moone. View more context for this quotation a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §192 204 He was the second that circumpassed the earthly globe. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 23/1 The Sun from East to West who all doth see, On this low Glob sees nothing like to thee. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 9 Of this various Matter..the far greatest part of the Terrestrial Globe consists. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 326 I wish..you was..regular in letting me have the pleasure of knowing what passes on your side of the Globe. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 219 The same set of manners will follow a nation..over the whole globe. 1769 J. Wesley Jrnl. 8 Sept. (1827) III. 369 The globe of earth..can hardly afford a more pleasing scene. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 261/1 I felt as it were the globe of the world sliding from under my feet;..every thing was reeling around me. 1843 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall (rev. ed.) in Poems (ed. 2) II. 110 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day. 1891 Speaker 2 May 534/1 The harnessing of electricity to the commerce of the globe. a1910 J. L. Cuthbertson Barwon Ballads & School Verses (1912) 233 The boy to do me justice on this globe Has never yet been born. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Compl. Poems (1993) 272 The gush of spring is strong enough To toss the globe of earth like a ball on a water-jet. 1936 C. Croneis & W. C. Krumbein Down to Earth p. iv [Chapter] 4. We examine the Earth's sources of energy, and follow this energy through the economy of our terrestrial globe. 1959 C. Oliver in Astounding Sci. Fiction June 77/1 One of the screens showed the globe of the Earth far below, blue and green and necklaced with silver clouds. 1969 Indedpendent Rec. (helena, Montana) 3 Oct. 4/1 There is not enough water, air, and land on this earthly globe to absorb all of man's poisons, erosions,..and rearrangings. 2004 Business Week 22 Nov. 127/4 The wind farms would boost the ‘surface drag’ of the earth, changing circulation patterns around the globe. < as lemmas |
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