oasis
/әu'eisis/
📖 中文释义
- n. 绿洲, 舒适的地方
- [医] 绿洲(沙漠中), 健岛(病变区中的健康组织)
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
复数 oases
💬 双语例句
There is an oasis in the desert.
沙漠中有绿洲。
It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism. The question for Europeans today is whether they can – and, more important, should – be content with their status.
但欧洲已不再被认为是全球行动者 — — 本应如此。 它是一片和平绿洲 — — 如果不是动力之源的话。 今日欧洲的问题是是否能 — — 以及更重要的的,是否应该 — — 满足于这一地位。
Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign-debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity. But that continuity is more reminiscent of the zastoi, or stagnation, of the Brezhnev era.
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🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)