| 单词 | half a world away |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf a world away d. half a world away: far away; (literal) on the other side of the planet. Also with from. ΚΠ 1841 T. C. Morgan Bk. without Name I. 79 The guest freezes in the north-east corner of the dining-hall,..half a world away from the glowing hearth. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 837 Here is a group of colored folks half a world away, yet the United States is not content until it goes, annexes them, and rules them. 1954 Times 2 Aug. 7 The camps of the ‘gold rush’ never grew into a powerful city, as they did at Johannesburg, half a world away. 1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iv. xvi. 361 The other tanks that are visible during a SIMNET session are controlled by other tank crews that can be twelve feet or half a world away, in real time. 2004 Adirondack Life Feb. 48/2 Half a world away from the Adirondacks, gazelles in the Gobi Desert rely on ‘snow mines’, oases of water from melting snows buried beneath the sand. < as lemmas |
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