| 单词 | the girdle of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe girdle of the world a. That which surrounds, as a girdle does the body; †a zone. †the girdle of the world; the ecliptic, the equator. Also of immaterial surroundings. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > defined or limited portion of space > a particular extent or region > distinguished by some quality or condition reignc1405 girdle1559 zone1822 nether region1830 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > encircling band or ring sengilbondc1479 colletc1530 verge1573 engirdling1598 zone1605 girdlea1616 belting1676 belt1753 the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude > equator burning line1484 burnt line1555 equinox1579 equinoctial1584 line1588 equatora1613 the girdle of the world1626 palaeoequator1960 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 260 We hataþ on leden quinque zonas, ðæt synd fif gyrdlas. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 63 Five..zones..we may aptly call them equidistant places, or Girdles. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 19 Suppose within the Girdle of these Walls Are now confin'd two mightie Monarchies. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §398 The Great Brizes, which the Motion of the Aire in great Circles, (such as are vnder the Girdle of the World) produceth. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 416 The Rhiphean Mountains encompass them..which..they call the Girdle of their Land. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Five Girdles bind the Skies, the torrid Zone Glows with the passing and repassing Sun. View more context for this quotation c1700 J. Lawson in Harper's Mag. (1883) Feb. 419/1 A delicious country..placed in that girdle of the world which affords wine, oil, fruit. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 20 The billows roll, From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 86 Trade is the golden girdle of the globe. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xvii. 219 The horizon was bounded by a girdle of forests. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. viii. 146 The quick, smart patter of hammers sounds incessantly, in one encircling girdle of din. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome i. 5 The Palatine hill..the first nucleus of the Roman Empire, lay in the centre of a girdle of eminences. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxiii. 415 Among good and holy men love would still be the girdle of perfectness. < as lemmas |
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