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单词 explorer
释义
explorerex‧plo‧rer /ɪkˈsplɔːrə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.
  • Certainly her fellow explorers ganged up on Dame Freya's side.
  • For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.
  • He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.
  • It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.
  • The collection is being marketed as clothing for ice climbers, glacier explorers and back-country skiers.
  • The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with Columbus and continuing on through Raleigh.
Thesaurus
THESAURUSpeople who travel
British English, traveler American English someone who is travelling a long distance: · Weary travellers waited at the airport.· My aunt was a great traveller (=she travelled a lot).
someone who is travelling somewhere for a holiday: · During the summer, over a million tourists visit the island each year.
someone who is travelling in a vehicle, plane, ship etc but not driving it or working on it: · The driver and two passengers were killed in the crash.
someone who travels to work every day: · commuters on the train to London
someone who travels to a lot of different places, carrying their clothes etc in a rucksack: · The hostels are great for backpackers.
someone who travels to places that people have not visited before: · Potatoes were brought to England by explorers such as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.· Actually, they were one of the most sensible things that the earlier white explorers brought with them.· Biology played an important role in southern exploration, for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.· Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would our maps appear upside down?
· Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers.· It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer, and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.· Meanwhile fellow travellers can only admire the hardiness of the last great explorer, now 83.· Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did - excited, yes, but more than a little frightened too!
· The wonders of Ease Gill are available only to a privileged few intrepid explorers.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounexplorationexploreradjectiveexploratoryunexploredverbexplore
someone who travels through an unknown area to find out about it
see thesaurus at travel
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