| 单词 | earthly |
| 释义 | earth·ly 1. a. < no earthly sovereign can do what he pleases — M.R.Cohen > < there could be a new order based on vital harmony and the earthly millenium might approach — E.M.Forster > b. 2. archaic 3. < airplane travel would have remained a merely minor quantitative improvement over earthly locomotion — Maya Deren > 4. < there is no earthly doubt that men degenerate — J.B.Cabell > < not an earthly chance to win > Synonyms: < the high gods, who dwell remote from the fret and fever of this earthly life — J.G.Frazer > < we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign forever — Bram Stoker > terrestrial, sometimes a sonorous or scientific close synonym for earthly, is often an opposite for celestial. It may be used to designate land in contrast to water or air or to indicate planets nearer the sun in contrast to those more distant < it was probably not the first time that struggles for terrestrial power were carried on in terms of celestial ideology; it certainly has not been the last — L.A.White > < strictly terrestrial, being from the nature of its claws unable to climb trees — James Stevenson-Hamilton > terrene is an uncommon synonym for earthly and for terrestrial in general nonscientific applications < and so the empyrean element, lying smothered under the terrene, and yet inextinguishable there, made sad writings — Thomas Carlyle > < all that was mixed and reconciled in Thee … of high with low, celestial with terrene — William Wordsworth > earthy differs from earthly in centering attention on the soil or ground of the earth rather than on the earth as a planet or as the habitat of mankind; it may imply grossness, crudeness, concern with material things, and lack of anything exalted < he smelled the earthy fragrance rising up out of the furrows — Pearl Buck > < these native passion plays are more earthy than religious, are enlivened with a good many broadly comic touches — Green Peyton > < with much earthy dross in her, she was yet preeminently a creature of “fire and air” — John Buchan > mundane is opposed to spiritual, lofty, exalted, or elevated; it centers attention on practical affairs and concerns, immediate objectives, base or basic needs and pleasures, and occasionally routine or humdrum activity < she did not allow them to talk of mundane affairs on these expeditions to and from church — Archibald Marshall > < the real meaning of the play is evidently the triumph of the spiritual over the mundane — Grenville Vernon > < such mundane activities as washing dishes or driving an automobile — Ralph Linton > worldly may suggest indifference to and obliviousness about matters spiritual and attention to success, pleasure, sophistication, and gain < the obvious thing to say of her was that she was worldly; cared too much for rank and society and getting on in the world — which was true in a sense — Virginia Woolf > < our medieval universities were founded not for laymen but for monks and clerics whose business was primarily not with worldly affairs but with the eternal hereafter — M.R.Cohen > sublunary is a rather literary synonym for terrestrial or, sometimes, for earthly < the quakes and sublunary conflicts of this negligible earth — L.P.Smith > < the contrast between the transcendental, immutable, and eternal heavens, the home of the blest, on the one hand, and the sublunary sphere of the earth, the scene of birth, change, decay, and death on the other — G.C.Sellery > |
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