expanses

英 [ɪksˈpænsɪz]

美 [ɪkˈspænsɪz]

n.  一大片，广阔，宽广，浩瀚(尤指陆地或海洋)
expanse的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 广袤;辽阔;浩瀚
  Anexpanse ofsomething, usually sea, sky, or land, is a very large amount of it.
  1. ...a vast expanse of grassland.
     广阔的草原

双语例句

• There is soil that looks like broad expanses of red silk, decorated with the long curving rows of pink and white flowers of the cotton plant.
  此地还有红绸般的大片土壤，上面点缀着棉地里的粉红色和白色花朵。
• Wallow in money We are rich in resources and vast expanses of fertile land.
  [口]在钱里打滚，非常富有我国资源丰富，沃野千里。
• Its vast expanses are relentlessly being tamed and subdivided into plots for family homes, as couples seek inexpensive property and good schools near the city.
  广阔的土地被全部开垦并且分给一个个家庭，居民们在城市周边寻找着便宜的房子和较好的学校。
• Instead of spray paint though, bits of white coral harvested from local beaches are arranged into messages, which seem to glow against the islands black lava expanses.
  尽可能避免油漆喷射，小块白色珊瑚虫是在局域海滩收获的被安排作为讯息使用，那个似乎发出光亮“心形珊瑚虫”构造和岛屿上的黑色火山岩形成强烈反差。
• Vast expanses of untamed wilderness punish intruders with feral brutality.
  广阔无边的无羁荒野用野性的残忍惩罚入侵者。
• Determined to pursue greater natural expanses and the origins of life, at age24 Yayanagi embarked on a two year journey through the Mediterranean, Brazil, finally chasing the sun to Africa.
  为了追寻更广阔的自然及生命的起源，矢柳氏于廿四岁那年开始了为期两年的旅程。他周游地中海、巴西，更为著艳阳到过非洲。
• The universe we know a set of distinct bodies separated by vast expanses of essentially empty space is a fairly recent development, cosmologically speaking.
  就宇宙学而言，我们所熟知的宇宙一个由众多相距遥远的独立个体所占据的广袤空间这其实是在宇宙演化的晚期才形成。
• An air photograph taken at that time would have revealed spotted villages, linked together by unsurfaced roads and separated by expanses of forest or swamp.
  那个年代里做的空中拍照能显示出错落有致的村庄，用凹凸不平的道路连着，也被铺展的一片片森林或沼泽彼此隔开着。
• That the endless expanses of the Gobi Desert, then through the ages people died in the Gobi Desert heartbreaking.
  那一望无际的戈壁滩，那古往今来令人魂断心碎的戈壁滩。
• They often contains wide expanses of plate glass in steel or concrete frames. This contrasted with the ( largely Victorian) red brick universities and the older ancient universities.
  它们的校舍通常在混凝土结构中大量使用平板玻璃，和以维多利亚风格为主的红砖大学以及更古老的古典大学形成对比。