| 词汇 | highland |
| 释义 | highland adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈhaɪ.lənd/ us /ˈhaɪ.lənd/ in or relating to an area with mountains or hills: 高地的，高原的;山区的 Much of central and eastern Brazil is highland plateau.巴西中部和东部的大部分地区是高原。 highland springs高地泉水 (alsoHighland) in or relating to the Scottish Highlands (= a mountainous area in the north of Scotland): 苏格兰高地的 The groom wore Highland dress tartan.新郎穿着苏格兰高地格呢短裙。 He took a trip to the highland games at Braemar in Scotland.他参加了在苏格兰布雷马尔举行的高地运动会。 a Highland reel (= a dance)一支高地四人舞 Related word highlands The couple met as teenagers in the highland village of Soloma. Melting ice thunders along highland valleys in a torrent of mud and rock. A huge painting of highland cattle hangs on the wall. Geography: hills & mountains acclivity alpine tundra craggy esker highlands hillock mesa mid-ocean ridge motte Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Rainier pike precipitous scarp slope spur steep the Adirondack Mountains the Alaska Range the Alps You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Towns & regions: named regions of countries Highland noun uk /ˈhaɪ.lənd/ us /ˈhaɪ.lənd/ an area in the north of Scotland that was one of nine local government regions until 1996 and is now a council area (= an area with its own local government): 海兰，高地（位于苏格兰北部，原为苏格兰九个地方行政区之一，1996年撤销，现为一个议会区） In Highland, some 83% of the funding of the council is from the Scottish Executive.高地议会区83% 的经费来自苏格兰行政院。 Officials from the Highland Council have been working closely with local communities.高地议会区的官员与当地社区的合作一向非常紧密。 Eight councils, including Glasgow, Highland, and Fife, recycled below 5%. Inverness, 34 miles away, is the administrative capital of the Highland region. He said the fuel tax was damaging the Highland economy. Towns & regions: named regions of countries Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Affrilachian AK AL East Yorkshire English Canadian Essex fife Mississippi Mississippian Missouri Missourian MN South Lanarkshire Staffordshire Stirling Stirlingshire Strathclyde the Fertile Crescent Highland adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈhaɪ.lənd/ us /ˈhaɪ.lənd/ A Highland cow is a type of cow, originally bred in Scotland, that has long, thick, brown hair and large horns, and is kept for its meat: The children loved the farm's Highland cows. Herds of shaggy Highland cattle graze in the valley. a Highland bull BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages The white beaches are empty except perhaps for a stray shaggy-haired Highland cow. Highland cattle graze in the fields. Black was the original dominant colour of the Highland herds before selective breeding was introduced. Cattle & similar animals Aberdeen Angus Africander Alderney Angus Ankole cattle Charbray Charolais Chianina Corriente Irish Moiled jersey Kerry Kobe Limousin Red Angus Red Poll Sahiwal Salers Sanga Examples of highlandhighland However, unlike in the highlands, only the big commercial farmers were present in the lowlands. I was initially puzzled to discover that songs to highland swidden deities had been incorporated into a regular lowland domestic rite. Unlike their highland neighbors, they never centralized political authority. However, the past two decades have brought a change to the highlands that has been strong enough to shake that balance. His star would rise quickly during 2000 when he led massive roadblocks in the highlands that forced concessions on agrarian policy. This movement forced some local groups into highland fastnesses. The data suggest that these foreign residents were of intermediate status, perhaps, as argued earlier, serving as merchants or trade representatives from the highland metropolis. Stories abound in the southern highlands of late-nineteenth-century resource conflicts, migration of expelled or dissatisfied groups, and dispersal and resettlement. Losses of 90% of amphibian biomass throughout highland tropical areas will affect nutrient cycling and energy flow, within and between habitats. The area includes the border between the agricultural plain and the forested highland. The experience of conflict in the southern highlands was also gendered. In the cooler highlands, temperature (especially minimum temperature) has a more profound role in determining malaria transmission. Over sixteen commercialized varieties of potatoes are grown in the central highlands and sold in urban marketplaces. For some in the tribal highlands, the problem was, quite simply, money. One of the prominent occupational engagements that cut across social identities in the highland forests was hunting. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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