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Wilderness

英式发音:['wɪldənɪs] or ['wɪldɚnəs] 美式发音

    (noun.) a bewildering profusion; 'the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups'; 'a wilderness of masts in the harbor'.

    (noun.) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; 'it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers'.

    (noun.) a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War.

    (noun.) (politics) a state of disfavor; 'he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness'.

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Wilderness

双语例句


  • He has been something of a voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that did not understand its own message. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
  • It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
  • Leave this wilderness, it was said to me, and go out hence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
  • He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
  • Our losses in the Wilderness were very severe. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
  • How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
  • From there to Fredericksburg he had the use of the two roads above described running nearly parallel to the Wilderness. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
  • In fancy we shall see Milan again, and her stately Cathedral with its marble wilderness of graceful spires. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
  • Warren followed Wilson and reached the Wilderness Tavern by noon, took position there and intrenched. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
  • For the balance of the day and all the following night we raced across that ochre wilderness with the pursuers at our back ever gaining upon us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
  • As a consequence, the wilderness blossoms as a rose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
  • In fact, nowhere after the battle of the Wilderness did Lee show any disposition to leave his defences far behind him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
  • She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
  • She spoke quietly and looked at the wilderness of sand and mist with steady, thoughtful eyes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
  • With as much ease as I was told to go into this wilderness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
  • Rocky wildernesses and barren fields suddenly became Eldorados. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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