earth
n. 地球, 泥土, 世界, 尘世 vt. 埋入土中, 赶入洞内 vi. 躲入洞内
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教材释义与例句
地球；地表，陆地；土地，土壤；尘事，俗事；兽穴
the planet that we live on
把（电线）[电] 接地；盖（土）；追赶入洞穴
to make electrical equipment safe by connecting it to the ground with a wire
释义与例句
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1.
Soil.
地
土壤
不可数 可数This is good earth for growing potatoes.
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Any general rock-based material.
泥土
不可数 可数She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.
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The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
陆地
地面
地
地下
可数 不可数Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.
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4.
A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
地线
接地线
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The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
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A region of the planet; a land or country.
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Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
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The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
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The people on the globe.
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Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
可数 不可数New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.
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The human body.
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The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
泥土
土
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Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
可数 废旧 不可数 化学
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To connect electrically to the earth.
英国 及物That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.
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To bury.
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3.
To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
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To burrow.
不及物
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Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.
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From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”). Cognates Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /erḫaš/, “border, boundary, line”). Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.
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