| 单词 | to stand in island |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand in island a. An elevated piece of land surrounded by marsh or ‘intervale’ land; a piece of woodland surrounded by prairie or flat open country; a block of buildings [= Latin insula]; also an individual or a race, detached or standing out by itself; †to stand in island, to be detached or isolated (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] > be isolated to stand in island1638 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated island1638 Robinson Crusoe1775 Robinson1800 isolato1851 shut-in1904 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > in marsh or swamp sedge-hill1483 hummock1636 island1638 moss-hag1790 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > buildings > connected massif1524 isle1670 squarea1684 block1796 insula1832 city block1843 island1897 1638 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1892) III. 51 Abraham Shawe selleth vnto Ferdinando Adam one portion of Grownd called an hill or Iland as it lyeth to his home lott. 1641 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 169 The Court hath graunted vnto Willm Thomas..all that whole neck of vpland..as also those hammocks of vpland called ilands in the marshes before the same. 1650 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1854) III. 188 A small hill, or iland, in the meddow on the west side of Charles Riuer. a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 80 The pillars standing in Island (as we say) the work could not securely bear a roof. 1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie x. 22 Every man is an Iland, or a little world. c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. iii. 7 This house..stands in an Island, being surrounded by four streets. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 630 The shapely knoll, That, softly swelled and gaily dressed, appears A flowery island, from the dark green lawn Emerging. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 35 The small islands in these intervales, are of a different soil, and..are evidently the tops of small hills, which have not been covered by the inundations of the rivers. 1805 T. M. Harris Jrnl. Tour 178 In some [prairies] are little clumps of trees on higher ground, which are called islands. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada ii. xi. 277 The country was one uninterrupted plain,..a frozen sea, of which the little coppices were the islands. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 281 We were in sight of a wood, or island, as the term not unnaturally is, as well with the Indians as others. 1834 Visit to Texas iv. 41 These groves are called islands, from the striking resemblance they present to small tracts of land surrounded by water. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vii. 59 A man may call his house an island if he likes. 1843 Amer. Pioneer 2 283 An island of timber. 1853 F. W. Thomas John Randolph & Other Sketches 61 Islands—that is, great clumps of trees, covering some~times many acres, appearing just like many islands in an outstretched ocean. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 66 It is a strange spot—this plot of tamarisks with its seventeen wells,—literally an island in the Desert. 1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. ix. 330 The Silures no longer form a compact ethnological island, but are..mingled with other races. 1897 Daily News 11 May 4/6 The island of houses between the Churches of St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Clement Danes. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail ix. 63 The pine there grew thick on isolated ‘islands’ of not more than an acre or so in extent,—little knolls rising from the level of a marsh. 1930 19th Cent. Dec. 713 Now, the drawback of this plan, from the Zionist point of view, is that it will prevent land purchase for the meantime and the growth of the Jewish ‘islands’ in the country. 1962 A. Fry Ranch on Cariboo iv. 42 The islands were small patches of pine and spruce timber on little rises of high ground that occurred here and there in the several hundred acres of the meadow. 1974 Country Life 21 Feb. 350/1 A churchyard..is..perhaps a well-wooded ‘island’ in an agricultural countryside. < as lemmas |
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