| 单词 | horizon |
| 释义 | horizon (once / 228 pages) 1n 2n 3n When you look out your window and note the furthest point you can see––the line where the sky meets the earth––that edge is called the horizon. Horizon can also mean the edge of something in a figurative sense. When you are thinking about your life, it can be difficult to get very far beyond where you are. Teenagers have a hard time imagining beyond the horizons of young adulthood. People expecting a baby often put much of their focus on infancy––having a child who can sit up or even walk is beyond the horizons of their thinking. WORD FAMILYhorizon: horizons USAGE EXAMPLESDespite his stubborn refusal to be alarmist, Mass admits there’s climatological drama on our horizon. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) During January, Venus will reach its peak height above the horizon, according to the Beckstrom Observatory. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) There are warning flags on Iowa’s fiscal horizon. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet Syn|Hyper apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon line a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent 2n the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth 2Syn|Hyper celestial horizon great circle a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center n the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated 3It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge Syn|Hyper purview, view ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" n a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land Exp|Hypo|Hyper A horizon the top layer of a soil profile; usually contains humus B horizonimmediately below the A-horizon; contains deposits of organic matter leached from surface soils C horizonbeneath the B-horizon and above the bedrock; consisting of weathered rock soil horizon a layer in a soil profile geological horizona layer of rock with a particular composition (especially of fossils); for dating the stratum stratum one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) |
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