frontier
英 ['frʌntɪə; frʌn'tɪə]
美[frʌn'tɪr]
- n. 前沿；边界；国境
- adj. 边界的；开拓的
- n. (Frontier)人名；(法)弗龙捷
词态变化
复数: frontiers;
中文词源
frontier 拓荒者，边远地区居民
来自front,前面的，原义为前线部队，边疆。后用于美国西部大开发时期拓荒者，边远居民。
英英释意
- 1. a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country;
- "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"
- 2. an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
- 3. an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development;
- "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
英文词源
- frontier (n.)
- c. 1400, frowntere, "front line of an army;" early 15c., fronture, "borderland, part of a country which faces another," from Old French frontiere "boundary-line of a country," also "frontier fortress; front rank of an army" (13c.), noun use of adjective frontier "facing, neighboring," from front "brow" (see front (n.)). In reference to North America, "part of the country which is at the edge of its settled regions" from 1670s. Later it was given a specific sense:
What is the frontier? ... In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile. [F.J. Turner, "The Frontier in American History," 1920]
同义词辨析
border, bounds, boundary, frontier, limit
这些名词均含有"边界，边境"之意。
border： 多指国与国之间或两地区的分界处，即分界线附近的边缘部分。
bounds： 常与boundary换用，指土地边界，但意思不如boundary明确，主要用于抽象事物和文学作品中。
boundary： 侧重地图上正式标定的、双方遵守的边界，也可指较小行政单位间的界线。
frontier： 指两国接壤的前沿地区，属于各国的国境和边疆，多指设防的边界。
limit： 含义广泛，常用作复数。指任何界限、范围、分界线外面的部分，可指有形或无形的东西。
考试真题
- Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
- "A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption," said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group.
2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
- There's a new frontier in 3D printing that's beginning to come into focus: food.
2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
实用场景例句
- the frontier between the land of the Saxons and that of the Danes
- 撒克逊人土地和古斯堪的纳维亚人土地的边界
牛津词典
- a customs post on the frontier with Italy
- 与意大利的交界边境上的海关关卡
牛津词典
- a frontier town/zone/post
- 边陲小镇；边疆地带；边防站
牛津词典
- a remote frontier settlement
- 边远地区定居点
牛津词典
- to push back the frontiers of science (= to increase knowledge of science)
- 开拓科学新领域
牛津词典
- to roll back the frontiers of government (= to limit the powers of the government)
- 限制政府权力
牛津词典
- It wasn't difficult then to cross the frontier.
- 那时穿越边境并不困难。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a far-flung outpost on the frontier.
- 远驻西部边疆的前哨
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...pushing back the frontiers of science.
- 推进科学前沿
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...technological frontiers.
- 技术尖端
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Provide the customs transit, reloading and information feedback for goods in frontier ports.
- 提供货物在边境口岸的转关, 换装,信息反馈.
期刊摘选
- In the untamed frontier of the Kamchatka Peninsula, poaching keeps the bears at risk.
- 在堪察加半岛蛮荒的边疆, 偷猎让俄罗斯熊处于危险之中.
期刊摘选
- They lived in log cabins on the frontier.
- 他们住在边境的木屋里.
期刊摘选
- The car was turned back at the frontier.
- 汽车在边境处被拦住了.
辞典例句
- But I tell you the New Frontier is here, whether we seek it or not.
- 但是我要告诉大家,“新边疆”就在眼前, 无论我们要不要去寻找它.
演讲部分
- Many young people went to the frontier to build it.
- 许多年青人去建设边疆.
期刊摘选
- William McNeill , The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times, Princeton University Press, 1983.
- 威廉姆.麦克尼尔, 伟大的边疆: 近代的自由与等级, 普林斯顿大学出版社, 1983.
期刊摘选
- Ecoenvironmental geochemistry is a new frontier science.
- 生态环境地球化学是一门新兴边缘学科.
期刊摘选
- Beyond the frontier lay very real dangers.
- 在开发地区以外十分危险.
期刊摘选
- China has a frontier line of six thousand miles bordering on Russia.
- 中俄接壤达6000英里.
期刊摘选
- Prediction for deep ore prospecting is a frontier and key research in metallogeny and metallogenic prognosis.
- 深部找矿预测已成为当前成矿学和成矿预测学的科学前沿和研究重点.
期刊摘选
- There's a lot of smuggling across this frontier.
- 这段边境走私活动很猖獗.
辞典例句
- The war greatly multiplied the dangers of frontier life.
- 战争大大地增加了前线士兵的生命危险.
期刊摘选
- There were very few border controls on the southwestern frontier.
- 西南国界上没几个边境检查站.
《简明英汉词典》
- The frontier station was starved for food and water.
- 边防站急需食物和水.
《简明英汉词典》
- He wrote a book descriptive of the frontier provinces.
- 他写了一本描写边疆各省的专著.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Areas near the frontier were rough and lawless in the old days.
- 过去边远地区混乱不堪,而且没有法律.
《简明英汉词典》
- Troops are massing on the frontier.
- 部队在边境集结.
《简明英汉词典》