英:[və(:)ˈdʒinjə]
美:[vɚˈdʒɪnjə]
英:[və(:)ˈdʒinjə]
美:[vɚˈdʒɪnjə]
Vir·gin·ia
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Virginian (adj.), Virginian (n.)
Noun
1. a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States
3. a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range
英国在北美的殖民地,名称在1587年的地图上出现,以伊丽莎白一世命名, Virgin Queen.。这个女性专有名词源自拉丁语 Virginia,是 Virginius 的女性形式,更早的是 Verginius,可能与 Vergilius 有关(参见 Virgilian)。相关词汇: Virginian。
1 Everyone turns to me as I put down their dessert, and says politely, “Thank you, Virginia,” or “Thank you, senorita.”
2 From that time on, Isaac lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia, then a booming tobacco, farm market, and slave-trading town that had become a center for some of the state’s first railroad lines.
3 “They have an apartment in northern Virginia. Maybe he’s staying there.”
4 “Your hair is so pretty, Virginia! It’s so long!”
5 She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf.
6 However, Virginia’s legacy as the birthplace of humanity’s first step into the heavens would have to compete with the notoriety it was gaining as the country’s most intransigent foe of integrated schools.
7 The coastal communities that stretched from Virginia and eastern Maryland to lower Delaware were unapologetically Southern.
8 The only possible exception to this rule was the Upper South, to include the states of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.
9 One of those speculators was the British governor of Virginia John Murray, the Fourth Earl of Dunmore.
10 Inside the front cover was an inscription: " To Virginia from Helena. "
书的内封面上的题词是: " 海伦娜赠维吉妮亚 ".
11 And farther down in Southampton, Virginia, a man named Nat Turner was biding his time.
12 Thomas Jefferson expressed this attitude in his Notes on the State of Virginia, a series of answers to questions about American life posed by a Frenchman.
13 About the same time, however, Jefferson advertised in The Virginia Gazette for the return of an enslaved mulatto shoemaker named Sandy.
14 Even when they focused on a warmer place like Virginia, they persistently selected as colonists people ignorant of farming; multiplying the difficulties, the would-be colonizers were arriving in the middle of a severe, multiyear drought.
15 “Virginia,” Silvia says, her forehead wrinkled in concern, “you don’t seem like yourself. Have you been sick?”
16 “It’s all right, Virginia, you can stay here. Calm down, honey. You’ll spend the night here. He’s not going to touch you. We’ll take care of you.”
17 The padlock on its double doors was huge, more suitable for the gates of heaven or hell, I thought, than a little West Virginia church.
18 All I can say is it will take my whole entire life to get some wood cut out of that oak tree with my Virginia quarter.
19 I turn my attention to the excitement at hand—have we really found Virginia?
20 His aunt Virginia had started Job Corps but didn’t finish.
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