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western

英 ['west(ə)n] 美['wɛstɚn]

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反义词

adj. 西方的，西部的；有西方特征的
n. 西方人；西部片，西部小说
n. (Western)人名；(英)韦斯顿

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英英释意

1. a sandwich made from a western omelet

英文词源

western (adj.): "toward or of the west," late Old English westerne "western, westerly, coming from the west," from west + -erne, suffix denoting direction. The noun meaning "book or movie about the Old West" is first attested 1909. Westerner is from 1837 as "person from the U.S. West," 1880 as "Euro-American," as opposed to Oriental.

考试真题

In modern western societies, however, the focus on individuality and independence means that people are less concerned about conforming to (遵守) the dictates of family and culture.

W : We mainly deal with large volume buyers from western countries and our products have been well received.

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

The Chinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue, both of which were new experiences to me because they are both non-existent in Western medicine.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.

In it the majority of students will have conformed to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western.

In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones

By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.

We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.

And in fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin's a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.

Claer Barrett, the editor of financial times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

I quickly passed over state schools and southern schools, believing their curriculums to be automatically inferior to northeastern or western counterparts.

She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.

The strength of that effect is stronger in western cultures than in East Asian cultures.

A friend of mine owns an area of land in western victoria.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Featuring adaptations from Chinese and western classic, including works from Chinese academy award - winning composer Tan Dun.

For western designers, China and its rich culture have long been an inspiration for western creativity.

I was searching for these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing.

Italy is the latest western European country trying to control a growing immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship.

Many western companies have tried to imitate such asian ways of doing things, which are based on general agreement.

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

By most recent measures, the UK’s GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

"They blame it on the manufacturing recession," says birgit Klohs, chief executive of The right Place, a business development agency for western michigan.

And it gives the Western Association of fish and wildlife Agencies, a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress.

By most recent measures, the UK's GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken's habitat.

John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

Some western farmers have responded by moving operations to Mexico.

Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of wildfires is a national concern because of impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.

实用场景例句

western Spain: 西班牙西部

Western Europe: 西欧

the western slopes of the mountain: 山的西坡

Western art: 西方艺术

...hand-made rugs from Western and Central Asia.: 来自西亚和中亚的手工小地毯

...Moi University, in western Kenya.: 位于肯尼亚西部的莫恩大学

Mexico had the support of the big western governments...: 墨西哥拥有西方大国的支持。

Those statements have never been reported in the Western media.: 那些言论似乎从来没有被西方媒体报道过。

He studied hard and he passed the examination.: 他学习努力并通过了考试.

The theatre company will kick off the season with a production of The Playboy of the Western World.: 剧团将以《西方世界的花花公子》这出剧拉开本届戏剧节的序幕.

The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot.: 医院遭到了轰炸,汉斯就步行回到了西德.

The contingent marched in the direction of the Western Hills.: 队伍朝西山的方向前进.

Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.: 西方观念逐渐传入东方.

He is wearing a western style suit.: 他穿着一套西式服装.

The new design compromises the merits of Chinese and Western styles.: 这个新设计融合了中西式的优点.

Rome was the matrix of Western civilization.: 罗马是西方文明之母.

They adopted western culture, institutions, and even clothing.: 他们接受了西方的文化、习俗甚至服饰.

Is Western society going downhill?: 西方社会是在走下坡路吗 ?

This philosophy is western in origin.: 这种哲学起源于西方.

the western slopes of the mountain: 山的西坡

There were fears that some of the Western hostages might be killed in reprisal.: 有人担心一些西方人质可能会受到报复性杀害。

The factory was to be a showpiece of Western investment in the East.: 这家工厂将会成为西方在东方投资的样板。

The college has brought me into contact with western ideas.: 上大学使我接触了西方的思想。

It seemed to him that western civilization was in grave economic and cultural danger.: 在他看来，西方文明似乎陷入严重的经济和文化危机。

I executed the hairpin turn high on the sheer western face of the mountains.: 我在山脉西侧陡峭的高处成功地急转弯。

The expansion of Western capitalism incorporated the Third World into an exploitative world system.: 西方资本主义的扩张将第三世界并入了剥削性的世界体系中。

They said Western aid was needed to cushion the blows of vital reform.: 他们称需要西方的援助来缓解重大改革带来的冲击。