| 单词 | adjacent |
| 释义 | ad·ja·cent 1. a. < the city square and the adjacent streets > : nearby but not touching < the islands and the adjacent mainland coast > b. < hills … composed of oyster shells … the adjacent inhabitants burn them — Mark van Doren > c. 2. of two angles Synonyms: < the heavy lands adjacent to Paris — Charles Dickens > < Indian Pass, Mount Marcy, and the adjacent mountains — John Burroughs > < the safety of the western hemisphere and of the seas adjacent thereto — F.D.Roosevelt > Applied to things of the same type, it indicates either side-by-side proximity or lack of anything of the same nature intervening < the doors of the adjacent apartment were opened, and Egmont saw himself surrounded — J.L.Motley > adjoining is quite similar to adjacent in meaning and suggestion but may more strongly indicate existence of common bounding lines or lines or points of junction < in upstate New York and the adjoining counties of Pennsylvania — Hans Kurath > < the grayish white stone building and the adjoining graveyard — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > abutting most strongly predicates actual contact at a bounding or dividing line < abutting lots > < the state of Utah and the abutting state of Idaho — W.L.Sperry > < the north wall, to which abutting rooms were added — Christopher Hussey > contiguous shows variable usage but is likely to suggest touching along a dividing line; it may indicate an unbroken continuity < Marsh and McDunn were each alone in contiguous labs, and McDunn attests that Marsh was still at the telephone when he entered his lab — Edith C. Rivett > < Tompkinsville and Stapleton are contiguous localities, virtually indistinguishable from each other — American Guide Series: New York City > < adjacent events need not be contiguous; just as there may be stretches of a string which are not occupied by beads, so the child may experience uneventful periods of time — James Jeans > conterminous may apply to a boundary strip in common; often it and coterminous indicate that all boundaries for two areas are the same and consequently that the two are practically identical < conterminous with Philadelphia county, the Quaker City lies along the west bank of the Delaware river — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < the city and county of Philadelphia are coterminous — American Year Book > < the mythology of early man was not conterminous with the religion of early man — F.B.Gummere > < the history of Zionism, in fact, is coterminous with the history of Jewry — H.E.Wedeck > juxtaposed indicates placement face to face and may suggest likelihood of contrast or opposition < opulence wildly juxtaposed to unbelievable poverty — Virginia A. Oakes > < disputes about water rights were almost inevitable between closely juxtaposed communities with expanding populations — V.G.Childe > |
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