英:[hi:θ]
美:[hiθ]
英:[hi:θ]
美:[hiθ]
n.
荒地,荒野
[植]石南
杜鹃花科植物
复数:heaths
词根:heath
adj.heather 杂色的;似石南的
n.heather 石南属植物
heathland (英)欧石南丛生的荒野
noun
a tract of wasteland
an extensive area of rather level open uncultivated land usually with poor coarse soil, inferior drainage, and a surface rich in peat or peaty humus
any of a family (Ericaceae, the heath family) of shrubby dicotyledonous and often evergreen plants that thrive on open barren usually acid and ill-drained soilespecially: an evergreen subshrub of either of two genera (Erica and Calluna) with whorls of needlelike leaves and clusters of small flowers
any of various plants that resemble true heaths
biographical name
Sir Edward (Richard George) 1916–2005 British prime minister (1970–74)
古英语 hæð 指“未耕种的土地,荒地,尤指平坦、灌木丛生、荒凉的土地; ”早期指“石南属植物,生长在荒野上”,受同源的古诺尔斯语 heiðr “荒野,沼泽”的影响,两者均源自原始日耳曼语 *haithiz(源头还包括古撒克逊语 hetha,古高地德语 heida “石南”,荷兰语 heide “荒野”,哥特语 haiþi “田野”),源自原始印欧语 *kaito “森林,未开垦的土地”(源头还包括古爱尔兰语 ciad,威尔士语 coed,布列塔尼语 coet “树林,森林”)。
Middle English heth, from Old English hǣth; akin to Old High German heida heather, Old Welsh coit forest
The first known use of heath was before the 12th century
heathennoun
a person who does not know about and worship the God of the Bible : pagan—usually used disparagingly especially in the past
an uncivilized person—usually used disparagingly especially in the past
heathnoun
any of a family of shrubby often evergreen plants that grow well on open barren usually acid and poorly drained soilespecially: a low evergreen shrub with needlelike leaves and clusters of small flowers
a usually level area of land overgrown with low shrubs
1 The site, maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, is kept in pristine condition, planted with pines, oak trees, maple trees and heath.
2 He treks for six hours across the heath in the snow and the rain to get to the train.
3 I hiked down the hill through the bush, a small, forested patch called the Lorne Queenscliff Coastal Reserve, past native trees and shrubs of common heath, soft bush-pea and manna gum trees.
4 My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.
5 But they soon run out of patience with his bluster and rowdiness, and he winds up homeless and crazy, railing against the elements in a thunderstorm on the heath.
6 The list includes irises, poppies, coneflowers, gaura, milkweed, torch lilies, yuccas, heaths and heathers, dianthus, thyme, amsonias, ice plant, and penstemons, not to mention grasses.
7 There are marshes, woods, heaths, pasturelands and fields of red clay.
8 “The confections tower like Nelson’s Column; the whipped cream mounds up like fog on the heath,” James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
9 Women who walked over the “heath” and read morocco-bound books and had two last names divided by a hyphen.
10 He began to cut across the heath toward the cottage but had not gone far when John himself came out of the door.
11 Edward Heath (Conservative, 1970-74).
爱德华·希斯(保守党,1970- 74)。
12 Lear, on the heath, stands next to the Fool—the latter cracking wise, as ever—as the wind whips up nightmares.
13 But those walks were disciplined; they were not meanders of discovery like Vincent’s on the heath.
14 He lost his way in the heath.
他在荒地里迷了路。
15 Angst, awful and hilarious, is as essential a feature of Mr. Ayckbourn’s sunny suburbs and cozy townhouses as it is of Beckett’s wintry heaths and dustbins.
16 And, even in the shattering encounter with the blinded Gloucester on Dover heath, Jacobi first tempts a fantasy mouse with toasted cheese before delightedly stamping on it.
17 Newton Heath in green and gold became Manchester United, and the legend of the Reds was born.
牛顿希斯的绿金色后来也成为了曼彻斯特联队,红色的传奇自那时开始正式上演。
18 Few kinds of plants grow in the heath.
少有植物可在荒地上生长。
19 One always imagines walking slowly across the heath on a misty evening — toward a waiting limousine and a bottle of Dom on ice.
20 The lavishness turns quickly into horror — Godwin gives us buckets of blood unasked for in the original — and then into a presentiment of Lear on the heath.
1 石南属植物
2 欧石南属常青灌木
3 眼蝶亚科
Brown Arctic alpine nymph gatekeeper satyr dryad grayling satyrid pearly eye Scotch argus marbled white meadow brown wall brown speckled wood wood nymph
4 石南属长青灌木
7 荒野
savage badlands waste wild desert wilderness Moor barren solitude bent fell moor heathland mulga the boondocks in the wilds of somewhere the bush in the wilds bush moory wasteland savagery Sahara bundu savagism
8 爱德华爵士
9 荒地
badlands waste wild wilderness Moor barren wasteland no-man's-land desolation wastelot moor moorland
10 尺蛾科中数种
11 欧石楠
12 杜鹃花科
blueberry cranberry azalea heather rhododendron huckleberry manzanita bearberry sourwood arbutus pieris rosebay kalmia cowberry salal checkerberry rhodora leatherleaf farkleberry strawberry tree tree heath mountain laurel bog rosemary trailing arbutus Labrador tea sheep laurel
13 希思