earth

英[ɜːθ]
美[ɜːrθ]

基本释义

n.
地球; 地面; 泥土,土地; 兽穴; (接)地线
v.
把(电线)接地

词性变化

实用例句

the planet Earth

地球这颗行星

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the history of life on earth

地球上的生命史

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the earth's ozone layer

地球的臭氧层

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The earth revolves around the sun.

地球绕着太阳转。

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I must be the happiest person on earth !

我一定是世界上最幸福的人!

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After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again.

出海一周后,重新踏上陆地感到很愉快。

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You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.

卡车开近时会感觉到地面在震动。

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a clod/lump/mound of earth

一块土;一团泥;一堆土

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What on earth are you doing?

你究竟在干什么?

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How on earth can she afford that?

她怎么可能负担得起呢?

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Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him.

无论什么都不能说服我跟他一块儿走。

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When he came down to earth after his win he admitted: 'It was an amazing feeling'...

从胜利的喜悦中平复后,他承认:“当时感觉棒极了。”

I was shocked, brought down to earth by this revelation.

真相的披露让我深感震惊,我被带回了现实。

She ran him to earth in the pub at five to one.

1点差5分的时候,她终于在酒馆里找到了他。

It must have cost the earth.

这肯定花了很多钱。

How on earth did that happen?...

那件事到底怎么发生的?

What on earth had Luke done?...

卢克究竟做了什么?

There was no reason on earth why she couldn't have moved in with us...

她没能搬过来和我们同住,这根本就说不通。

There is no feeling on earth like winning for the first time.

初尝胜利滋味的感觉真是无可比拟。

He wanted to be the fastest man on earth.

他想成为世界上跑得最快的人。

...the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth.

世界上最严重的生态灾难发生地

The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today. “

亚特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机今天安全返回地球。

...a fault in the Earth's crust.

地壳断层

The earth shook and the walls of neighbouring houses fell around them.

地面摇晃,周围房屋的墙体在他们身边倒塌。

The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus...

公路蜿蜒数英里,穿过炙烤的大地、灌木丛和仙人掌。

They will revert to tilling the earth in an old-fashioned way.

他们将回归到用老方法耕地。

The earth wire was not connected.

地线没有接上。

真题例句

America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts (宇航员) someday may survive so long in space that they would return to an Earth of the distant future.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

"There's no way on earth that genes from an alga should work inside an animal cell," says sidney pierce from the University of South Florida.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Actually, space technology helps people on Earth every day.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is compacted by the weight of the earth above.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Spin-off technology is space technology that is now used on Earth.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

That's about the same distance as 337 round trips from Earth to Pluto.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

They want to know how space research helps people on Earth.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

One recent study warns us of the danger of the exhaustion of natural resources on Earth.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented , and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Their behaviors can be found in almost all teenagers on earth.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is estimated that Antarctica boasts of the richest reserves of fresh water on earth.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Sweden has gone farther than any other nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep mysteries of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

The earth will experience extreme weathers.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

In the rusty red deserts of South Africa, steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Measurements of density and composition implied that Venus originally formed out of basically the same stuff as Earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Some have 26 vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 27 undergone changes as they have come into contact with an 28 expanding machine civilization.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

The greatest concern the authors raise is space debris一pieces of "junk" that orbit the earth, with the potential to cause serious damage if they collide with operational units, including the ISS.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

The sun was considerably less bright back then, so Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

They're primarily designed for Low Earth Orbit(LEO) an easily accessible region of space from around 200 to 800 miles above Earth, where human-tended missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station(ISS) hang out.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on Earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules, splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like Earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

within their compact bodies these minute satellites are able to house sensors and communications receivers/ transmitters that enable operators to study Earth from space, as well as space around Earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Earth Day, marked on 22 April, is an annual event aiming to raise public awareness about environmental protection.

2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 原文

Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It explores the heights with Go Ape, the high wire forest adventure course, or journey beneath the earth at Poole's cavern.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It is the responsibility to protect our earth.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

It seems obvious that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

No matter what you like to do, there is a way to get involved in various activities on earth day.

2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 原文

Since the first earth day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot "greener" toward the environment.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

We've grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night--dark enough for the planet venus to throw shadow on earth.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Before each of their revelations, many thinkers at the time had sustained more ancient ways of thinking, including the geocentric view that the Earth was at the centre of our universe.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Copernicus theorized in 1543 that in actual fact, all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface;

    "they dug into the earth outside the church"

  • 2. the solid part of the earth's surface;

    "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"

    "the earth shook for several minutes"

    "he dropped the logs on the ground"

  • 3. once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

  • 4. the concerns of the world as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife;

    "they consider the church to be independent of the world"

  • 5. a connection between an electrical device and the earth (which is a zero voltage)

Verb
  • 1. hide in the earth like a hunted animal

  • 2. connect to the earth;

    "earth the circuit"

同义词辨析

earth, world, globe

这些名词均可表示"地球"之意。

  • earth: 指表面有陆地和水,人类所居住行星的名字。有时与"天"相对,泛指"地"。
  • world: 通常相当于earth与globe,现多用指地球,地球上的世界,社会和人。
  • globe: 指我们生活的地球,但强调其实体和圆形。

earth, clay, dirt, land, dust, soil, mud, ground

这些名词都有"土地,土,泥"之意。

  • earth: 多指地表带有水分的泥土,较具体。
  • clay: 特指潮湿时发粘,而火烤后变坚硬的泥土。
  • dirt: 指地表的干松泥土。
  • land: 含义笼统。指与河流、海洋相对的陆地,也指可耕种的土地。
  • dust: 特指土壤干燥后,飞扬于空中的细微泥土。
  • soil: 特指适宜栽种农作物或生长各种植物的泥土。
  • mud: 指湿土,尤指雨后稀泥、污泥。
  • ground: 通常指大地的表面,也可指土壤、泥土或场地。

反义词

n.大地

heaven

其他释义

heaven