| 单词 | saint john | |||||||||
| 释义 | Saint JohnSaint JohnS0023000 (sānt)Saint JohnSaint` John′n.
Saint JohnSaint John,Virgin Islands: see Virgin IslandsVirgin Islands,group of about 100 small islands, West Indies, E of Puerto Rico. The islands are divided politically between the United States and Great Britain. Although constituting the westernmost part of the Lesser Antilles, the Virgin Islands form a geological unit with ..... Click the link for more information. of the United States. Saint John,river, 418 mi (673 km) long, rising in N Maine and flowing NE to New Brunswick, Canada, then SE below Edmundston, past St. Leonard, Grand Falls, Woodstock, and Fredericton to the Bay of Fundy at St. John. It forms part of the border between Maine and New Brunswick. Its chief tributaries are the Aroostook and Tobique rivers. At Grand Falls the river drops 75 ft (23 m) in a great cataract. At its mouth, within the city of St. John, are the Reversing Falls Rapids, caused by the strong tides of the Bay of Fundy, which force the river to reverse its flow at high tide. The river was visited (1604) by the French explorers Samuel de Champlain and Sieur de Monts. In the 17th and 18th cent. it was an important route for French, Native American, and English traders, and several trading posts were established on its banks. It later became a major lumber transportation route. There are major hydroelectric power plants at Grand Falls, Beechwood, and Mactaquac. The river is navigable to Fredericton. The valley of the St. John is fertile, and potatoes are raised there.Saint John,city (1991 pop. 74,969), S N.B., Canada, at the mouth of the St. John River on the Bay of Fundy. A year-round port, it has an excellent harbor, large dry docks, and terminal facilities. There is a ferry to Digby, N.S. The city is the commercial, manufacturing, and transportation center of New Brunswick, though it is being challenged by Moncton. There are pulp and paper mills, oil and sugar refineries, and food-processing plants. Lumbering and fishing are important.The site was visited (1604) by ChamplainChamplain, Samuel de Much of the old, largely wood city was destroyed by fire in 1877, and quickly rebuilt in brick and stone. Among notable features in St. John are Market Slip (1783), the old Loyalist Burying Ground (1783, a park), Martello Tower (1812), the Loyalist House (1817), the old court house (1830), the Roman Catholic cathedral and bishop's residence (1853), the New Brunswick Museum, and the Reversing Falls rapids on the St. John River. A branch of the Univ. of New Brunswick is in the city. John, Saint,one of the Twelve Apostles, traditional author of the fourth Gospel, three letters, and the Book of Revelation (see John, Gospel according to SaintJohn, Gospel according to Saint,fourth book of the New Testament. This account of Jesus' life is clearly set off from the other three Gospels (see Synoptic Gospels), although it is probable that John knew and used both Mark and Luke as sources. ..... Click the link for more information. ; JohnJohn, three letters of the New Testament. Traditionally, they are ascribed to John son of Zebedee, the disciple of Jesus. All three letters probably date to the end of the 1st cent. A.D., and may have been written as a corpus. First John is a homily. ..... Click the link for more information. , letters; RevelationRevelation or Apocalypse , the last book of the New Testament. It was written c.A.D. 95 on Patmos Island off the coast of Asia Minor by an exile named John, in the wake of local persecution by the Emperor Domitian (A.D. 81–96). ..... Click the link for more information. ); it is highly unlikely, however, that all five works were written by the same author. In the Gospels he and his brother, St. James (the Greater), are identified as sons of Zebedee; Jesus called them Boanerges or Sons of Thunder. The two brothers, together with Peter, were the three apostles closest to Jesus; they witnessed the Transfiguration and accompanied Jesus to Gethsemane. John has been thought to have been the disciple "whom Jesus loved." Jesus, in his dying moments, committed Mary to John's care. He is mentioned occasionally in the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul refers to him in Galatians. According to 2d-century authorities John died at an advanced age at Ephesus (c.A.D. 100). However, many scholars believe that John the apostle and John of Ephesus were two different persons. He is variously called John the Evangelist, John the Divine, and the Beloved Disciple. His symbol as evangelist is an eagle. Saint Johna city in eastern Canada, in the province of New Brunswick. Population, 107,000 (1971). Situated at the mouth of the Saint John River, the city is an ice-free port on the Atlantic Ocean; in 1973 it had a freight turnover of 11 million tons. Saint John exports coal and imports petroleum. It has a railroad station. Industry includes metallurgy, metalworking, oil refining, sugar refining, and the production of paper and pulp. Saint John was founded in 1635. Saint Johna river in eastern North America, in the USA and Canada. The Saint John River is 724 km long and drains an area of 55,400 sq km. It originates in the White Mountains (Appalachian system) and empties into the Bay of Fundy of the Atlantic Ocean. At the mouth it forms rapids, which fall a distance of 5 m; at the rapids during high tide, the river reverses its flow. The Saint John is fed by snow and rain, and the high-water period is in April and May. The mean flow rate is 1,130 cu m per sec. The river which is navigable as far as the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick Province, is used for floating timber. The city of Saint John is located at the mouth. Saint JohnSaint John
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Saint John - (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation
Saint John - a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy