| 词汇 | highlands |
| 释义 | highlands noun[ plural ] uk /ˈhaɪ.ləndz/ us /ˈhaɪ.ləndz/ a mountainous area of a country: 高地，高原;山区 Most villages in the highlands are now connected by roads.大多数高原上的村庄都通了公路。 Geography: hills & mountains acclivity alpine tundra clifftop craggy esker hillock Marilyn mesa mid-ocean ridge motte Mount Kilimanjaro pike pinnacle scarp slope spur steep the Adirondack Mountains the Alaska Range the Alps Related wordhighland the Highlands noun[ plural ] uk /ˈhaɪ.ləndz/ us /ˈhaɪ.ləndz/ a mountainous area in northern Scotland: （苏格兰北部的）高地 the Scottish Highlands苏格兰高地 Towns & regions: named regions of countries Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Affrilachian AK AL East Yorkshire English Canadian Essex fife Minnesotan Mississippi Mississippian Missouri Missourian South Glamorgan South Lanarkshire Staffordshire Stirling Stirlingshire the Fertile Crescent Highlandadjective[ before noun ]ukus related to or connected with the Scottish Highlands: （苏格兰）高地的 a Highland reel苏格兰高地里尔舞 highlands | American Dictionaryhighlands plural noun us/ˈhɑɪ·ləndz/ an area with mountains: Melting snow in the highlands is causing flooding in the valley. Examples of highlandshighlands However, unlike in the highlands, only the big commercial farmers were present in the lowlands. 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. Stories abound in the southern highlands of late-nineteenth-century resource conflicts, migration of expelled or dissatisfied groups, and dispersal and resettlement. 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. The politics of famine realigned the landscape of authority and alliance in the southern highlands. In the highlands, agave products are eaten most often just before harvests when stores of maize are lowest. But gender roles across the highlands differ quite significantly. Throughout the first half of the 1530s, he says, the highlands were in revolt. The technical difficulties of this outlet from the highlands will be discussed first, after which the alternative rivers will be compared with each other. First, the large amount of new money entering the highlands was unevenly distributed. Unpublished data show that infection can occur also in commercial piggeries both in the highlands and lowlands. 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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