首页英语词典earthearth的意思

earth

英 [ɜːθ] 美[ɝθ]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词world globe

反义词

n. 地球；地表，陆地；土地，土壤；尘事，俗事；兽穴
vt. 把（电线）[电] 接地；盖（土）；追赶入洞穴
vi. 躲进地洞

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词态变化

复数: earths;第三人称单数: earths;过去式: earthed;过去分词: earthed;现在分词: earthing;

中文词源

earth 地球，土地

来自PIE*er, 土地，地面，词源同ore.

英英释意

1. the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface;: "they dug into the earth outside the church"

2. the solid part of the earth's surface;: "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"

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;: "they consider the church to be independent of the world"

5. a connection between an electrical device and the earth (which is a zero voltage)

英文词源

earth: earth: [OE] Earth comes ultimately from an Indo- European base *er-. This produced the prehistoric Germanic noun *erthō, ancestor of German erde, Dutch aarde (whence, via early Afrikaans, English aardvark [19], literally ‘earth-pig’), Swedish and Danish jord, and English earth. Related forms outside Germanic include Greek eraze ‘on the ground’ and Welsh erw ‘field’. The word’s basic range of modern senses, ‘ground’, ‘world’, and ‘soil’, all date back to the Old English period.
=> aardvark
earth (n.): Old English eorþe "ground, soil, dirt, dry land; country, district," also used (along with middangeard) for "the (material) world, the abode of man" (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from Proto-Germanic *ertho (cognates: Old Frisian erthe "earth," Old Saxon ertha, Old Norse jörð, Middle Dutch eerde, Dutch aarde, Old High German erda, German Erde, Gothic airþa), from extended form of PIE root *er- (2) "earth, ground" (cognates: Middle Irish -ert "earth"). The earth considered as a planet was so called from c. 1400. Use in old chemistry is from 1728. Earth-mover "large digging machine" is from 1940.
earth (v.): "to commit (a corpse) to earth," late 14c., from earth (n.). Related: Earthed; earthing.

同义词辨析

earth, world, globe

这些名词均可表示"地球"之意。

earth：指表面有陆地和水，人类所居住行星的名字。有时与"天"相对，泛指"地"。

world：通常相当于earth与globe，现多用指地球，地球上的世界，社会和人。

globe：指我们生活的地球，但强调其实体和圆形。

earth, clay, dirt, land, dust, soil, mud, ground

这些名词都有"土地，土，泥"之意。

earth：多指地表带有水分的泥土，较具体。

clay：特指潮湿时发粘，而火烤后变坚硬的泥土。

dirt：指地表的干松泥土。

land：含义笼统。指与河流、海洋相对的陆地，也指可耕种的土地。

dust：特指土壤干燥后，飞扬于空中的细微泥土。

soil：特指适宜栽种农作物或生长各种植物的泥土。

mud：指湿土，尤指雨后稀泥、污泥。

ground：通常指大地的表面，也可指土壤、泥土或场地。

考试真题

America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.

It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts (宇航员) someday may survive so long in space that they would return to an Earth of the distant future.

"There's no way on earth that genes from an alga should work inside an animal cell," says sidney pierce from the University of South Florida.

Actually, space technology helps people on Earth every day.

As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is compacted by the weight of the earth above.

Spin-off technology is space technology that is now used on Earth.

That's about the same distance as 337 round trips from Earth to Pluto.

They want to know how space research helps people on Earth.

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.

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Earth Day, marked on 22 April, is an annual event aiming to raise public awareness about environmental protection.

Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless.

It explores the heights with Go Ape, the high wire forest adventure course, or journey beneath the earth at Poole's cavern.

It is the responsibility to protect our earth.

It seems obvious that these have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth.

No matter what you like to do, there is a way to get involved in various activities on earth day.

Since the first earth day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot "greener" toward the environment.

We've grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night--dark enough for the planet venus to throw shadow on earth.

Before each of their revelations, many thinkers at the time had sustained more ancient ways of thinking, including the geocentric view that the Earth was at the centre of our universe.

Copernicus theorized in 1543 that in actual fact, all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

词组搭配

bring (或 come) back (down) to earth

return or cause to return to reality after a period of daydreaming or excitement

使（幻想或兴奋之后）回到现实；回到现实

the earth moved (或 did the earth move for you?)

(humorous)one had (or did you have?) an orgasm

(幽默)达到了性高潮（或达到性高潮了吗？）

go to earth

(of a hunted animal) hide in an underground burrow

（猎物）逃入地洞

like nothing on earth

(informal)very strange

(非正式)像是来自外星的，极怪异的

they looked like nothing on earth.
他们像是来自外星。

on earth

Among all the possibilities

究竟：包括所有可能性的情况下

Why on earth did you put on that outfit?
你到底为什么要穿上这套服装?

实用场景例句

the planet Earth: 地球这颗行星

the history of life on earth: 地球上的生命史

the earth's ozone layer: 地球的臭氧层

The earth revolves around the sun.: 地球绕着太阳转。

I must be the happiest person on earth !: 我一定是世界上最幸福的人！

After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again.: 出海一周后，重新踏上陆地感到很愉快。

You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.: 卡车开近时会感觉到地面在震动。

a clod/lump/mound of earth: 一块土；一团泥；一堆土

What on earth are you doing?: 你究竟在干什么？

How on earth can she afford that?: 她怎么可能负担得起呢？

Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him.: 无论什么都不能说服我跟他一块儿走。

When he came down to earth after his win he admitted: 'It was an amazing feeling'...: 从胜利的喜悦中平复后，他承认：“当时感觉棒极了。”

I was shocked, brought down to earth by this revelation.: 真相的披露让我深感震惊，我被带回了现实。

She ran him to earth in the pub at five to one.: 1点差5分的时候，她终于在酒馆里找到了他。

It must have cost the earth.: 这肯定花了很多钱。

How on earth did that happen?...: 那件事到底怎么发生的？

What on earth had Luke done?...: 卢克究竟做了什么？

There was no reason on earth why she couldn't have moved in with us...: 她没能搬过来和我们同住，这根本就说不通。

There is no feeling on earth like winning for the first time.: 初尝胜利滋味的感觉真是无可比拟。

He wanted to be the fastest man on earth.: 他想成为世界上跑得最快的人。

...the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth.: 世界上最严重的生态灾难发生地

The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today. “: 亚特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机今天安全返回地球。

...a fault in the Earth's crust.: 地壳断层

The earth shook and the walls of neighbouring houses fell around them.: 地面摇晃，周围房屋的墙体在他们身边倒塌。

The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus...: 公路蜿蜒数英里，穿过炙烤的大地、灌木丛和仙人掌。

They will revert to tilling the earth in an old-fashioned way.: 他们将回归到用老方法耕地。

The earth wire was not connected.: 地线没有接上。