clime
clime 英 [klaɪm] 美 [klaɪm]
n. 气候；地方
名词复数:climes
- Not to be confused with "climb", a clime is a region known for its weather. In the dead of winter, we dream about heading to sunny climes, where we can hang out in shorts.
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- n. 气候；地方
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1. California's pleasant clime plays a role, but efficiency still matters.
加州宜人的气候发挥了重要作用，但对能源利用效率的重视仍然至关重要。
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2. She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.
她想到了她的丈夫，当她在这儿受冻的时候，他大概正在地球另一边某个温暖的地方吧。
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3. By these means prosperity and abundance prevailed in this beautiful city, its gates were thronged with commerce, and its warehouses filled with luxuries and merchandise of every clime and country.
通过这些措施使这美丽的城市富足丰饶，它的城门商旅络绎不绝，它的库房装满了来自各个地域各个国家的奢侈品和物产。
- clime (n.) 1540s, "a tract or region of the earth," shortening of climate (or a nativization of Latin clima). It might usefully take up the old, abandoned "horizontal region of the earth" sense of climate, but it is used chiefly by the poets, and they display no evident agreement on what they mean by it.
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