单词 | on the east |
释义 | > as lemmason the east (of) b. The quarter which with regard to the speaker or a particular place is situated in an easterly direction. Chiefly in to the east (of) (also on the east (of)): (situated) in an eastward direction (from). ΚΠ c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4831 Ȝit fand he..twa traside [read crasid] gatis, Ane to þe noke of þe north, a-nothire to þe est. 1532 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 108 A certain parcel of meadow called a hayte, lying between the said meadow..on the east, and the Thames on the west. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 48 Whos Chirch was hard adnexid to the Est of the Paroch Chirch. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 188 This valley of Iehosaphat..to the East of the City, contracted betweene it and the ouer-pearing hils of the opposite Oliuet. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Essex 317 Essex hath..the German Ocean on the East. 1743 A. Milne Descr. Parish Melrose 33 On the East of this Window there is a Niche. 1778 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (ed. 2) I. 431 If the countries..had been situate to the east of those whose longitude mariners had ascertained. 1820 J. P. Neale Views Seats Noblemen III. following Pl. 69 To the east the eye roams unconfined over the rich and highly ornamented plains of Shropshire. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. i. 3 Fifty miles more to the east..the French coast abruptly bends round to the north. 1915 D. Haig Diary 20 June in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 128 To the east of Aix-Noulette the country is covered with coal pits and houses. 1937 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 4) xxiii. 365 Between the rising folds of the Coast Range Mountains on the west and the rising Sierra Nevada fault-block on the east. 1978 Audubon Mar. 102/1 To the east an undulating sage carpet rolls toward the Nevada horizon. 2009 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 30/8 Just to the east of Saturn is the star Denebola, the cause of a considerable mystery. < as lemmas |
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