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词汇 oasis
释义 oasis
noun
uk /əʊˈeɪ.sɪs/ us /oʊˈeɪ.sɪs/pluraloases
[ C ]
a place in a desert where there is water and therefore plants and trees and sometimes a village or town(沙漠中的)绿洲
 
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[ S ]
a calm, pleasant place in the middle of somewhere busy and unpleasant: (繁忙、令人不适环境之中的)宁静宜人之地
Her office was an oasis of peace and sanity amid the surrounding chaos.在周围乱哄哄的环境中,她的办公室是一方宁静之地。
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oasis | American Dictionary


oasis
noun[ C ]
us/oʊˈeɪ·sɪs/pluraloasesus/oʊˈeɪ·siz/
an area in a desert where there is water and trees can grow

Examples of oasis


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There have been three ship-borne oases intercepted by port sanitary authorities from which there has been no spread of infection.
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The oases of the few such men remaining will be duly considered.
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I do not want the desert to swallow up the oases.
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As the concrete gradually takes over, the national parks will begin to stand out as the only green oases in an otherwise hideous urban development.
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Democracy is fast catching up on us, on the remaining oases of quiet.
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We have little oases of successful little towns.
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I think that in some oases the management has been shown to be responsible.
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They are oases of beauty and calm in a world sadly short of both.
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No information on this subject is available centrally; and assessment of the individual oases is extremely difficult.
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Actually in that particular case, owing to the peculiar way in which their pensions are assessed, those reductions would in most oases be very small.
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The demand is for coordination in such oases, and not for monopoly.
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I propose, in a circular, to indicate the procedure which is to be followed in these oases.
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What they strike at in many oases is the distribution of particular functions.
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He will have that principle in mind in resuming the policy of creating combined areas in appropriate oases.
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They are different people in positively a majority of oases, and surely, therefore, the obvious thing is to include both.
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