| 单词 | time zone |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime zone time zone n. a region within which a common standard time is used; (in later use) spec. each of twenty-four divisions of the earth's surface, with boundaries which are fixed by international agreement and which coincide for the most part with lines of longitude spaced 15° apart. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > time zone time zone1882 the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > systems of reckoning time of day > time-zone time zone1882 1882 J. Rodgers in N.Y. Herald 24 Feb. 3/4 The plan of time zones seems to me a plan for legalizing diversity. 1892 E. Noel Internat. Time 4 The country [sc. the United States of America]..is divided into time-zones, each stretching over fifteen degrees of longitude, and differing one hour in time from the zone on either side of it. 1906 Outlook 9 June 774/1 To move the Observatory..would involve the adoption of a new starting-point for the meridians of longitude and for the time-zones into which the world is divided. 1976 M. Machlin Pipeline lv. 553 Due to the time zone differences, they would have plenty of time to make the six o'clock news coast to coast. 2009 New Yorker 2 Mar. 8/3 A call-center agent in Calcutta, roughly eight thousand miles and ten time zones away, coaches you through a series of getting-to-know-you exercises. < as lemmas |
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