英语词汇“sere”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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Sere has not wandered very far from its origins—it derives from the Old English word sear, meaning "dry," which traces back to the same ancient root that gave Old High German, Greek, and Lithuanian words for drying out and withering. Several nouns sere also exist; one is an obscure nominal form of the adjective, but the others are etymologically unrelated to the adjective or to one another. The most common of the nouns is a 20th-century coinage from the Latin word series (meaning "series"), which refers to a series of ecological communities formed in ecological succession.

Synonyms

Adjective

arid
droughty
dry
thirsty
waterless

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Example Sentences

Adjective a sere region that can't support agriculture

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Here was a tense dialectic that energized his entire career—a tugging between a world of civic engagement, where all pronouncements are dubious, and a sere realm of a lovely, but unsustainable, disembodiment.

Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Thirst becomes the overarching metaphor for human desire in a sere landscape.

Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 But when firefighters struggled to contain a 50-by-50-foot brush fire on a sere hillside in Laguna Niguel on Wednesday afternoon, officials grew concerned.

Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022 Reaching Fengxiang required an eight-hour train journey across a sere landscape dotted with fields and the occasional skeletons of half-finished apartment blocks.

Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2021 Taken as a whole, McMurtry’s work constitutes one of the greatest achievements of any American novelist — rich, vivid, soulful, as disarmingly beautiful as the sere landscape and always narratively potent.

Kyle Smith, National Review, 28 Mar. 2021 This is the dry side of the island with sere grasslands and free-range goats.

Ken Van Vechten, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019 With thick brushstrokes, Ms. Harricks summons the sere land and low trees of the Australian bush, the unseen moon turning the ground almost white as the dingo hunts for a rabbit to feed her pups.

Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019 Ely Ortiz and the members of his rescue crew, Aguilas del Desierto, or Desert Eagles, spread out across the flat, sere desert.

Bob Ortega, CNN, 15 May 2018

Noun

Short stories are an ideal gateway to Mr. MacLaverty’s oeuvre, delivering in a few pages a burst of the sere prose and perception found in his novels.

Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022 As part of the innovative pick-up deal, the seres will also be broadcast on the CBS later in 2020, following its run on Pop.

Will Thorne, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019 Photo: Scott London Last year’s event drew about 75,000 people—and 317 works of art—to the sere, chalky landscape.

Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2018 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English, from Old English sēar dry; akin to Old High German sōrēn to wither, Greek hauos dry, Lithuanian sausas

Noun

Latin series series

First Known Use

Adjective

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1916, in the meaning defined above

单词	sere
释义	sere 1 of 2 adjective ˈsir variants or less commonly sear 1 : being dried and withered 2 archaic : threadbare sere 2 of 2 noun : a series of ecological communities formed in ecological succession Did you know? Sere has not wandered very far from its origins—it derives from the Old English word sear, meaning "dry," which traces back to the same ancient root that gave Old High German, Greek, and Lithuanian words for drying out and withering. Several nouns sere also exist; one is an obscure nominal form of the adjective, but the others are etymologically unrelated to the adjective or to one another. The most common of the nouns is a 20th-century coinage from the Latin word series (meaning "series"), which refers to a series of ecological communities formed in ecological succession. Synonyms Adjective arid droughty dry thirsty waterless See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Adjective a sere region that can't support agriculture Recent Examples on the Web Adjective Here was a tense dialectic that energized his entire career—a tugging between a world of civic engagement, where all pronouncements are dubious, and a sere realm of a lovely, but unsustainable, disembodiment. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Thirst becomes the overarching metaphor for human desire in a sere landscape. Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 But when firefighters struggled to contain a 50-by-50-foot brush fire on a sere hillside in Laguna Niguel on Wednesday afternoon, officials grew concerned. Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022 Reaching Fengxiang required an eight-hour train journey across a sere landscape dotted with fields and the occasional skeletons of half-finished apartment blocks. Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2021 Taken as a whole, McMurtry’s work constitutes one of the greatest achievements of any American novelist — rich, vivid, soulful, as disarmingly beautiful as the sere landscape and always narratively potent. Kyle Smith, National Review, 28 Mar. 2021 This is the dry side of the island with sere grasslands and free-range goats. Ken Van Vechten, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019 With thick brushstrokes, Ms. Harricks summons the sere land and low trees of the Australian bush, the unseen moon turning the ground almost white as the dingo hunts for a rabbit to feed her pups. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019 Ely Ortiz and the members of his rescue crew, Aguilas del Desierto, or Desert Eagles, spread out across the flat, sere desert. Bob Ortega, CNN, 15 May 2018 Noun Short stories are an ideal gateway to Mr. MacLaverty’s oeuvre, delivering in a few pages a burst of the sere prose and perception found in his novels. Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022 As part of the innovative pick-up deal, the seres will also be broadcast on the CBS later in 2020, following its run on Pop. Will Thorne, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019 Photo: Scott London Last year’s event drew about 75,000 people—and 317 works of art—to the sere, chalky landscape. Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2018 See More Word History Etymology Adjective Middle English, from Old English sēar dry; akin to Old High German sōrēn to wither, Greek hauos dry, Lithuanian sausas Noun Latin series series First Known Use Adjective before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Noun 1916, in the meaning defined above sere adjective variants also sear as in desert marked by little or no precipitation or humidity a sere region that can't support agriculture Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance desert arid droughty dry desertic waterless thirsty sunbaked parched baked dehydrated desertlike hyperarid bone-dry rainless air-dry ultradry xerothermic Antonyms & Near Antonyms moist wet damp humid sodden dank soggy saturated dripping soaked watered washed bathed drenched waterlogged watery sopping soaking flooded drowned submerged soppy awash soused overflowed hydrated dowsed doused inundated deluged swamped See More
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