英语词汇“the great divide”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. In North American, Australian usage, etc.: A ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two river valleys or systems; a watershed; the Great (Continental) Divide, that of the Rocky Mountains; figurative a dividing or boundary line; spec. the boundary between life and death.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun] > dividing

shodec1330

shed1530

height of land1725

watershed1764

water shear1765

ridge1773

divide1807

water-parting1837

coteau1839

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > bounding line or surface > boundary-line > dividing

threadc1400

dividentc1450

several1597

ideal line1767

the Great (Continental) Divide1868

borderline1869

the world > life > death > [noun] > point of

death's gateOE

the gate(s of death1340

lasta1382

(in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483

death's door1515

the valley of the shadow of death1535

(one's) last gasp1564

death door1601

extremity1602

on one's last legs1614

verge1750

the Great (Continental) Divide1908

1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 136 Struck and passed the divide between the Grand river and the Verdegris river.

1868 Congress. Globe 14 July 4068/1 The doctrine of political equality forms the great ‘divide’ between parties now as heretofore.

1869 W. J. Palmer Surv. across Continent 171 The great Continental Divide at Arkansas Pass.

1872 J. H. Tice Over Plains 214 [Tales] of those who long since ‘have gone over the Divide’.

1887 R. Murray Geol. Victoria 6 The ‘Main Divide’ of Victoria, forming the watershed line between the Murray River system on the north, and the numerous streams debouching on the southern coast.

1890 Cent. Mag. Mar. 771/1 In central Colorado the ‘Continental Divide’ is a wilderness of desolate peaks.

1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 377 I could take the expedition..along the great divide which forms the watershed.

1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 xxiii. 226 Snip! goes his bill an' th' snake slides over th' Divide.

1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xi. 139 If he was killed, he would have company across the Great Divide.

1909 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 1/2 He was good to Ruth, and she, too, loved him. But between them still was ‘the great divide’. She could not forget that he had bought her for a string of nuggets.

1955 C. S. Lewis Let. 25 June (1966) 263 Instead of saying the Great Divide came between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, I said..that it didn't.

1965 Listener 16 Sept. 414/2 This is the divide between Barth and Aquinas, it is the divide between the conservative evangelical tradition and liberal theology, it is the divide between Biblicism and the Bishop of Woolwich.

单词	the great divide
释义	> as lemmas the Great (Continental) Divide 2. In North American, Australian usage, etc.: A ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two river valleys or systems; a watershed; the Great (Continental) Divide, that of the Rocky Mountains; figurative a dividing or boundary line; spec. the boundary between life and death. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun] > dividing shodec1330 shed1530 height of land1725 watershed1764 water shear1765 ridge1773 divide1807 water-parting1837 coteau1839 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > bounding line or surface > boundary-line > dividing threadc1400 dividentc1450 several1597 ideal line1767 the Great (Continental) Divide1868 borderline1869 the world > life > death > [noun] > point of death's gateOE the gate(s of death1340 lasta1382 (in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483 death's door1515 the valley of the shadow of death1535 (one's) last gasp1564 death door1601 extremity1602 on one's last legs1614 verge1750 the Great (Continental) Divide1908 1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 136 Struck and passed the divide between the Grand river and the Verdegris river. 1868 Congress. Globe 14 July 4068/1 The doctrine of political equality forms the great ‘divide’ between parties now as heretofore. 1869 W. J. Palmer Surv. across Continent 171 The great Continental Divide at Arkansas Pass. 1872 J. H. Tice Over Plains 214 [Tales] of those who long since ‘have gone over the Divide’. 1887 R. Murray Geol. Victoria 6 The ‘Main Divide’ of Victoria, forming the watershed line between the Murray River system on the north, and the numerous streams debouching on the southern coast. 1890 Cent. Mag. Mar. 771/1 In central Colorado the ‘Continental Divide’ is a wilderness of desolate peaks. 1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 377 I could take the expedition..along the great divide which forms the watershed. 1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 xxiii. 226 Snip! goes his bill an' th' snake slides over th' Divide. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xi. 139 If he was killed, he would have company across the Great Divide. 1909 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 1/2 He was good to Ruth, and she, too, loved him. But between them still was ‘the great divide’. She could not forget that he had bought her for a string of nuggets. 1955 C. S. Lewis Let. 25 June (1966) 263 Instead of saying the Great Divide came between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, I said..that it didn't. 1965 Listener 16 Sept. 414/2 This is the divide between Barth and Aquinas, it is the divide between the conservative evangelical tradition and liberal theology, it is the divide between Biblicism and the Bishop of Woolwich. extracted from dividen. < as lemmas
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