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单词 globe
释义
globe
(glb )
Word forms: globes
1. singular noun
You can refer to the world as the globe when you are emphasizing how big it is or that something happens in many different parts of it.
...bottles of beer from every corner of the globe.
70% of our globe's surface is water.
Synonyms: planet, world, round, ball  
2. countable noun
A globe is a ball-shaped object with a map of the world on it. It is usually fixed on a stand.
...a globe of the world.
Three large globes stand on the floor.
3. countable noun
Any ball-shaped object can be referred to as a globe.
The overhead light was covered now with a white globe.
Collocations:
glass globe
And his reward was a glass globe, a golden jacket, and a cheque for 115,000.
The Sun
Hang assorted colours of glass globe lanterns (4.99 each) at random in a tree, or from crooks (3.50 each) at regular intervals along a border or path.
Times, Sunday Times
In these last four digital projections, a large glass globe seesaws tensely back and forth over a central fulcrum.
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It used a camphine lamp in a glass globe that was sunk in the water.
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Three large windows allowed the glow of the sun to fill the theatre lobby, and below the middle window was an iron balcony furnished with glass globe lanterns.
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scour the globe
Since 2000 he has scoured the globe for acquisitions to hasten growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He'll scour the globe for another drink.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Its energy companies are scouring the globe for opportunities, but the most obvious solution remains out of reach.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
span the globe
In the market it did the most to create, it remains the leader and the only company of its kind to span the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
Thus, to be faithfully missional, we must both cross the street and span the globe.
Christianity Today
And they will shake incredulous heads over an era in which our collective attention deficit disorder aspired to span the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
Inquiries will span the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
An additional 220 officers were drafted in from outside the force to aid the probe - with inquiries spanning the globe.
The Sun
sweep the globe
Influenza scientists have spent decades watching and waiting for the next 1918-type flu pandemic to sweep the globe.
The Times Literary Supplement
Famines continued to sweep the globe through the 20th century.
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One hundred years ago, a powerful strain of the flu swept the globe, infecting one third of the world’s population.
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I can imagine the anxiety felt by those stranded abroad as the virus swept the globe.
Times,Sunday Times
Politically, her scheme could be an ingenious antidote to the national populism sweeping the globe.
Times,Sunday Times
tour the globe
No wonder they've been touring the globe since bursting on to the scene five years ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Last year saw him touring the globe and a debut season in Ibiza.
The Sun (2015)
The island has been his home for the past eight years or so when he's not touring the globe.
The Sun (2014)
What with touring the globe and recording, she can't have much time for anything else.
The Sun (2011)
travel the globe
Competition for cheap flights meant that you could, for the first time, travel the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
Items are hand-picked by the site's 'stylehunters', who travel the globe searching for emerging talent.
Times, Sunday Times
As they get wealthier, other emerging nationalities will want to travel the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
What inspired you to travel the globe in search of intriguing foods?
Smithsonian Mag
Travel the globe and take on the world's best pool sharks.
Times, Sunday Times
traverse the globe
Like a bird migrating with the seasons it will traverse the globe - a viral monsoon that arrives each year as the temperature dips below a critical threshold.
Times,Sunday Times
To earlier generations the idea that songbirds the weight of a small coin could traverse the globe to avoid a harsh winter was unthinkable.
Times, Sunday Times
She prattles on about the horrors of global warming and in the next breath tells me all about her gap year traversing the globe, mostly by plane.
Times, Sunday Times
A comprehensive and transparent website listing out its activities makes it a reliable platform for future partners and donations from people traversing the globe.
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Translations:
Chinese: 地球
Japanese: 地球儀
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