| 单词 | tropical |
| 释义 | tropical (once / 458 pages) 1adj 2adj Our planet’s tropical regions, located just north and south of the equator, are known for being warm and humid. Some people think tropical areas make ideal vacation spots; others think they’re just good places for getting mosquito bites. This word calls for a crash course in geography. If you stand at Earth’s equator at certain times of the year, you’ll see the Sun directly overhead. However, the Sun “wanders” a bit, and sometimes you have to move north or south to see the Sun right above you; latitude lines called tropics show just how far north and south you have to go. The region between each tropic and the equator is considered tropical. For more details, see your travel agent. WORD FAMILYtropical: semitropical, subtropical, tropically+/subtropic: subtropics/tropic: semitropic, subtropic, tropical, tropics/tropics: semitropics USAGE EXAMPLESWe are physicians who teach tropical medicine in East Africa each year, where we witness the tragedy of illnesses and deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The mercury got a boost from a record-challenging El Niño event, a cyclical warming of the tropical Pacific, which dispersed heat around the globe. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) It’s another example of the regard with which arts are supported by Cuba’s “tropical socialist” government. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1adj relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) tropical islands tropical fruit Syn tropic equatorial of or existing at or near the geographic equator 2adj of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic tropical year 3adj of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics 2tropical weather Syn tropic hot used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning adj characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense Syn figurative, nonliteral (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech |
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