英:[ˈɜ:θbaʊnd]
美:[ˈɜrθbaʊnd]
英:[ˈɜ:θbaʊnd]
美:[ˈɜrθbaʊnd]
adjective
fast in or to the soil
earthbound roots
located on or restricted to land or to the surface of the earth
bound by earthly interests
pedestrian, unimaginative
The first known use of earthbound was circa 1616
1 The only example of cinematic overreaching is its juxtaposition of what looks like digital stardust — or is it a purposeful double exposure of the heavens and the earth? — on earthbound images.
2 Despite the performers spending time suspended about the stage, the production remains stubbornly earthbound.
3 Songs require heightened language, but the pair trade in an earthbound idiom, and their funniest numbers are marooned between music and hair-splitting chat.
4 Shortly thereafter, from the hereafter, Thomas receives instructions for his earthbound afterlife, which will last 90 days.
5 But none of those sophisticated earthbound films were able to attract anything close to the turnout for the top-performing weekend offerings.
6 But these passages are fleeting and too few; "The Japanese Lover" is a humorless and earthbound disappointment.
7 The Specters seemed to be earthbound, without the power of flight, luckily for the witches.
8 On the whole it’s too earthbound for him, too wedded to reggae’s rhythm logic.
9 The expense and logistical difficulties of the two-day operation have kept him earthbound ever since.
10 Similar methods of messing with pirates' heads go back at least to the 1995 Super Nintendo role-playing game Earthbound.
早在1995年任天堂就在它的超级脚色饰演游戏《乡土》中使用了近似的手段,让盗版玩家头疼不已。
11 Highlights include celestial works by Katie Paterson, including invisible black fireworks and a cosmology lecture and Adam Chodzko's decidedly earthbound revelations about local history.
12 Though I was still light-years away from the nearest twinkle, I was closer than the earthbound campers scattered around Potter County.
13 For the time being, I remain earthbound, but that has its pleasures too.
14 My one cavil would be that his tempi tend to be conservative; the Allegro con Brio of the Prokofiev and the Beethoven Scherzo both felt a little earthbound.
15 Though we know of gravity's inevitable victory, with every leap and lift, they express our secret hope to overcome our own earthbound limitations.
尽管我们都知道,地球引力不可战胜,但他们的每次跳跃和提举都表达了克服地球引力局限的希望。
16 Pressure from her label, a pleading army of fans, the imperative to remain “relevant”—none of these earthbound concerns have roused Apple from her state of prolonged hibernation.
17 Suffice it to say, my imagination was too earthbound.
18 They provide the only glimpse of the pointedly modest, earthbound magic that is the basis of Mr. Orozco’s reputation.
19 That is the witching hour when thousands of solar-powered glass orbs on stems, created by the artist Bruce Munro, enfold visitors in an earthbound aurora borealis of shifting hues.
20 The play’s third main element, the fantastical fairy realm, takes a back seat in this decidedly earthbound production.
2 陆地上的
3 缺乏想像力的
5 陆地的
6 平凡
platitudinarian even common character stock garden ordinary pedestrian slick trivial beaten commonplace indifferent lowly unimportant unremarkable prosaic matter-of-fact homespun ornery quotidian undistinguished garden-variety workaday bathetic platitudinous truistic ordinarily prosaism prose mediocrity platitude triviality bathos tameness prosiness prosaicism platitudinal half-pie waste routine everyday vanilla humdrum unglamorous bread-and-butter noteless rumdum banausic commonality commonness mediocritize from central casting common or garden be no great shakes
8 现世
secular temporal mundane terrestrial worldly carnal terrene hodiernal life lower world flesh and blood
9 世俗
lay day-to-day secular temporal earthly mundane terrestrial profane carnal fleshly unreligious terrene world worldly bourgeois subcelestial worldly-minded gross earthy vulgar earthborn earthliness
10 地面上的
12 世俗的
lay day-to-day secular temporal earthly mundane terrestrial profane carnal fleshly unreligious terrene worldly bourgeois subcelestial worldly-minded gross earthy vulgar earthborn
14 地球上的
16 尘世
earthly mundane terrestrial carnal fleshly unspiritual sublunary terrene life earth vale of tears
17 陆地
19 平凡的
common plain trivial mediocre commonplace unremarkable prosaic quotidian undistinguished workaday common or garden platitudinarian even character stock garden ordinary pedestrian slick beaten indifferent lowly unimportant matter-of-fact homespun ornery garden-variety bathetic platitudinous truistic platitudinal half-pie waste routine everyday vanilla prose humdrum unglamorous bread-and-butter noteless rumdum banausic from central casting