Precinct
['priːsɪŋ(k)t] or ['prisɪŋkt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes.
編輯:塞格雷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
(n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
(n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
达拉整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Limit, confine, bound, boundary, border, frontier, marches.[2]. District, territorial division.
伊内兹手打
解釋/意思:
n. limit or boundary of a place: a district or division within certain boundaries: limit of jurisdiction or authority.
手打:丽塔
例句/造句/用法:
- Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It must have been he whose men you have heard battling within the precincts of the temple. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It was eleven o'clock when he came in, though he had not been further than the precincts of the garden. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It was a toilsome journey up-stairs to his room, and he re-entered its dark solitary precincts in unutterable misery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before; the height, the contour were new to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- We were set down at St. Bartholomew's, and entered the wretched precincts of the house of disease. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But their curiosity was disappointed; for these outlets only looked upon the court of the castle, and the sound came from beyond its precincts. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Reading and writing had already long escaped from the temple precincts and the ranks of the court scribes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I had not vainly sought the storied precincts of Rome--I had discovered a medicine for my many and vital wounds. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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