Alpine village tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains.
阿爾卑斯山山區的小村幾乎全是高山環抱、與世隔絕的窮鄉僻壤。
新概念英語第四冊
Lesson 3 Matterhorn man
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
n. 村民;鄉村,村莊;群落;
?? vill=villa茅房,別墅+age場所,物品 →村莊
"The road continues beyond the village up into the hills."
那條路經過村子后又往上延伸到群山中。
近義:town, townlet, borough, locality, hamlet, peasant
反義:settlement, town, burg, municipal, urban, city
n. 文明,文化;開化,教化;修養;文明社會;
?? civil市民;禮貌+ization...化→文明 → 文明,文化
"Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse."
文明已瀕臨毀滅的邊緣。
近義:humanity, mankind, world, civilisation, kultur, culture
adj. 阿爾卑斯山的;阿爾卑斯山區居民的;高山的;
n. 高山植物;
"alpine villages destroyed in an avalanche"
在一場雪崩中被摧毀的高山村莊
近義:highland, mountain, mountainous, hilly, rangy
反義:matched, plain, smooth, even, flat
adj. 高的;高尚的,崇高的;高音調的;高級的,高等的;
adv. (程度等)高地;高價地;奢侈地;
n. 高處,高位;[氣象學]高氣壓;高壓地帶;高水平;
"acrobatics on the high wire"
走鋼絲雜技
近義:maximum, towering, upland, elevated, altitudinous, inebriated
a. 窮困的, 無力的,用盡了的
近義:hardscrabble, nonproductive, poor