(adj.) close at hand; 'the nearby towns'; 'concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus' .
(adv.) not far away in relative terms; 'she works nearby'; 'the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars'.
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双语例句
When the large cannons in the forts on our coast are discharged during target practice, there are usually a lot of windows broken in the nearby houses. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
There was the Thomson reflecting mirror galvanometer and electrometer, while nearby were the standard cells by which the galvanometers were adjusted and standardized. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Come, we will go to some nearby window in the cliff and make sure. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
Their thoats were found wandering upon the sea bottom and evidences of a bloody conflict were discovered nearby. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
I gave him time to return to his quarters, as Xodar said he probably would do, then I sprang to the grated window and surveyed the nearby waters. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
His eyes rested upon the open doorway of a nearby hut. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
I turned again in time to see the gate of a nearby cage thrown open and three monstrous white apes spring into the arena. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from the foliage of a nearby tree. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Nearby was the gasoline plant. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Now and again a black warrior would rush from a nearby temple bearing a young woman in his arms. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
Often at night, in the small hours, all would adjourn for refreshments to a famous resort nearby, to discuss the events of to-day and to-morrow, full of incident and excitement. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Nearby was a large, handsome house with its ample front illuminated in the same way, and above its roof floated the Star-Spangled Banner of America. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.