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单词 earthbound
释义
earthboundearth‧bound /ˈɜːθbaʊnd $ ˈɜːrθ-/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The Hubble space telescope takes clearer pictures of stars than earthbound telescopes.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As earthbound concrete replaced shimmering glass, so crude functionalism was to supplant soaring aspiration.
  • I too can not be earthbound.
  • Like them, too, in their less earthbound moments, he enjoyed the proud embracing of risk.
  • The earthbound made derogatory jokes about empty cans, and turned their backs on the brash, glittering necklace of the night.
  • The Blackbird, introduced in 1964 and retired in 1990, was the antithesis of a lumbering, earthbound oxcart.
  • This gave greater depth to most of the patterns, but often made the dancers appear earthbound.
  • To bring the same advantages to earthbound drinkers, Daedalus is inventing a low-pressure pub.
  • With Gibbons, he wrote, oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness.
1unable to move away from the surface of the Earth2having very little imagination and thinking too much about practical things
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