| 词汇 | mainland |
| 释义 | mainland adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈmeɪn.lænd/ us /ˈmeɪn.lænd/ relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it: （不包括周围岛屿、构成一个国家或大洲的）大陆 mainland China中国大陆 Hawaii's cost of living is estimated at about 20 percent to 30 percent higher than most mainland communities.夏威夷的生活成本估计比大多数大陆社区高出约20%至30%。 The number of cars on mainland roads-about 20 million-is expected to increase by 2.5 million this year alone. This has been encouraged by developments in the international financial markets and by French aspirations to establish Paris as mainland Europe's prime financial centre. About 40 percent of the polar bear dens on the mainland coast of the Beaufort Sea are in the area proposed for oil exploration. Geography: small & large land masses archipelago atoll cay continent continental continentally coral reef desert island floating island interisland island isle key landform landlocked landmass Pangaea subcontinent the mainland noun[ S ] uk /ˈmeɪn.lænd/ us /ˈmeɪn.lænd/ the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it: 大陆;本土 They recently built a bridge between the mainland and the closest island.最近他们在大陆和最近的小岛之间建了一座桥。 Geography: small & large land masses archipelago atoll cay continent continental continentally coral reef desert island floating island interisland island isle key landform landlocked landmass Pangaea subcontinent mainland | American Dictionarymainland noun[ U ] us/ˈmeɪn·lənd/ the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it: The island is accessible by ferry from the mainland. mainland | Business Englishmainland noun[ S ] uk /ˈmeɪnlənd/us the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it: on the mainlandHe does all his banking on the mainland, but he lives on the island. the Chinese/American/European, etc. mainland mainland adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈmeɪnlənd/us belonging to or on the main part of a country or continent: mainland China/Europe/Greece, etc.The firm is opening new stores across the UK and mainland Europe. a mainland company/city/market Examples of mainlandmainland Under these plans, convicts were granted access to land and encouraged to bring their families from the mainland. The policy network representing the interests of the mainland heavy industry (most importantly the metallurgical industry) comes very close to the ideal type policy community. They returned to the mainland with either memories or habits of opium and this was fundamental for the spread of smoking in the eighteenth century. In the final part, the scope is extended to the mainland production. Predators of vertebrates are absent and densities of pollinators and seed dispersers are substantially reduced in comparison to the nearby mainland. We expect that withinhost parasite density should not affect parasite fecundity in insular populations, contrary to mainland populations. Some materials, such as cement and iron, were imported for the 1946-55 programme's projects, and others (mainly wood) came from the mainland. In addition, partial movie sound tracks are currently used throughout the mainland to teach listening comprehension. It seemed that all groups, the supporters of the separation of the island and mainland included, saw independence as the only option. All mainland industries pay taxes but the offshore oil industry is exempted. The habitat of all study islands and the mainland is semi-deciduous tropical forest. Under the original plan to close the penal settlement, convicts who returned to the mainland were offered remissions of one-third of their sentence. All farmers were asked not to purchase cattle from the mainland. Thus, for the purpose of our analysis, the mainland sites and six islands support agouti, while seven islands do not. An article from 1954 bolstered the argument by stating that the islands had once been connected to the mainland by dry land. See all examples of mainland 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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