earth

英[ɜːθ]美[ɜːrθ]

n.地球，地面，泥土，土地，兽穴，（接）地线；

v.把（电线）接地；

复数：earths;

第三人称单数：earths;

过去式：earthed;

过去分词：earthed;

现在分词：earthing;

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Many countries have sent up man-made satellites to circle the earth.许多国家已经发射人造卫星围绕地球运转。

It links the human heart to the life of the earth.它把人的心脏和地球生命联系起来。

Existing of the Earth is a miracle in itself.地球的存在本身就是一个奇迹。

In former times there were far fewer people dwelling on earth than there are now.从前生活在地球上的人比今天少得多。

I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree.我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。

Pigeons navigate less accurately when the earth’s magnetic field is disturbed.地球磁场受到干扰时，鸽子的道航能力就会变得不准确。

A slight earth tremor was felt in California.加利福尼亚发生了轻微的地震。

Drug dealers are the scum of the earth.*品贩子是社会的渣滓。

A plane plummeted to earth.一架飞机一头栽向地面。

Many types of animal have now vanished from the earth.许多动物物种现已从地球上绝迹。

英语六级真题

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.

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

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.

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 ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The earth will experience extreme weathers.

"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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-PROPER

地球（指宇宙组成部分时用Earth，指人类居住的星球时用the Earth）

Earth or the Earth is the planet on which we live. People usually say Earth when they are referring to the planet as part of the universe, and the Earth when they are talking about the planet as the place where we live.

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N-SING

陆地;地面

The earth is the land surface on which we live and move about.

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N-UNCOUNT

泥土;土壤;土地

Earth is the substance on the land surface of the earth, for example clay or sand, in which plants grow.

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N-COUNT

（狐等的）洞穴

An earth is a hole in the ground in which an animal such as a fox lives.

N-SING

（接）地线

The earth in an electric plug or piece of electrical equipment is the wire through which electricity can pass into the ground, which makes the equipment safe if something goes wrong with it.

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PHRASE

（用于以how, why, what 或 where 开始的问句，表示强调，通常表示问题没有答案或很难回答）究竟，到底

On earth is used for emphasis in questions that begin with words such as 'how', 'why', 'what', or 'where'. It is often used to suggest that there is no obvious or easy answer to the question being asked.

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（用于否定名词短语后表强调）根本，完全

On earth is used for emphasis after some negative noun groups, for example 'no reason'.

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(用于包含形容词*高级的名词短语后表示强调)世界上，人世间

On earth is used for emphasis after a noun group that contains a superlative adjective.

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PHRASE

（激动之后）恢复正常生活，回到现实

If you come down to earth or back to earth, you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement.

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PHRASE

（经过长时间的寻找后）终于找到

If you run someone or something to earth, you find them after searching for them for a long time.

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PHRASE

价格不菲/斥巨资

If you say that something cost the earth or that you paid the earth for it, you are emphasizing that it cost a very large amount of money.

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英汉词典释义

n.

世界, 地球

大地, 陆地, 地面

泥土

尘世, 人间

兽穴；（尤指狐狸栖息的）洞穴

（接）地线

vt.

把（电线）接地

英英词典释义

Noun

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

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

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;

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;

行业词典

医学： 土，土地：构成地面的土壤和其他粉状物；无机物：无定形易粉碎的无机物；

地理学： 地球；

天文学： 地球；太阳系九大行星之一。人类生活所在的行星。；

电力： 土石坝；earth-rockfill dam；土石围堰；earth-rockfill cofferdam；

电工： 地，又称：地(ground)；

船舶： 地；又称 :地(ground)；任一点的电位按惯例取为零的与大地等电位的导电物质。对金属船体，系指包括与船体永久性固定在一起的金属构件在内的全部金属船体；对非金属船，系指船底专门设置的金属接地板。；又称：地(ground) ，；

药学： 土；