| 单词 | border |
| 释义 | bor·der I. 1. a. < at the borders of the forest is a lake > b. < a grass plot with a cement border running about it > < a roast with a border of browned potatoes > 2. a. < the borders of the republic are notable for the vast forests there > b. < travelers crossing the border suddenly find themselves in a totally new world > 3. < shrub borders > < a border of perennials > 4. a. b. 5. a. b. 6. 7. Synonyms: < the border of a flower bed > < the borders of the forest > < crossing the border between the United States and Mexico > < the border of a handkerchief > margin may denote a border having definite width and definitely differing in some way from the interior surface < the margin of the page > < the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy — Thomas Hardy > verge may indicate a very narrow margin area or a boundary line marking an extreme limit; it is more often used figuratively than literally < tethered the horse for half an hour on the verge of the road — H.E.Bates > < like two nations which reluctantly accept the fact that a seemingly trivial border incident has brought them to the verge of war — Louis Auchincloss > < the entire expedition was on the verge of being surrounded and exterminated — John Mason Brown > edge indicates a sharply defined terminating line, sometimes between two levels or planes < the edge of the precipice > < the edge of the shelf > < flat-topped or rolling upland with a steep high edge to the west and a long gentle slope to the east — L.D.Stamp > rim usually designates a curving or round edge < the rim of a wheel > < new rims for his glasses > < the rim of the canyon > < a rim of mountains around the town > brim may apply to the upper rim of a vessel or container or whatever else retains a liquid < the brim of a goblet > < filling the tub up to the brim > < their host predicted that a rain would follow on the heels of the calm and fill the cisterns to the brim — Jean Stafford > brink may indicate a steep or abrupt edge or brim; it is often figurative < the brink of the cliff > < the brink of the canyon > < the brink of disaster > < the lineaments of that girl on the brink of death were those of the woman already dead — Edith Sitwell > < on the brink of a horrible danger — Oscar Wilde > II. transitive verb 1. < bordering the cloth with lace > 2. a. < shade trees bordering the streets of the town > b. obsolete < that nature which contemns its origin cannot be bordered — Shakespeare > 3. < an airport borders the city on the south > intransitive verb 1. < Iowa borders on Missouri > 2. < training nurses to practice what borders on medicine — Leonard Gross > |
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