expanses

英 [ɪksˈpænsɪz]

美 [ɪkˈspænsɪz]

n.  一大片，广阔，宽广，浩瀚(尤指陆地或海洋)
expanse的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 广袤;辽阔;浩瀚
  Anexpanse ofsomething, usually sea, sky, or land, is a very large amount of it.
  1. ...a vast expanse of grassland.
     广阔的草原

双语例句

• In the vast expanses of the Gobi desert, the straight highway never ends.
  茫茫的戈壁映入眼帘，与天相接与地同广。
• And they would have to be applied during the locusts'solitary phase, when they are scarce targets across vast expanses of land.
  而且这些化学物质需要在蝗虫处于孤单状态的时候使用，而那时候它们是分布在广阔土地上的稀疏目标。
• It has an extensive expanses of forest and gardens, an active tea plantation, and plots devoted to cultivation of a variety of Chinese vegetables for the picturesque resort's own use.
  酒店里绿树成荫，花园繁茂，还有一间生机勃勃的茶坊和几片种着各式中国蔬菜的菜园，供这家风景如画的度假酒店自给自足。
• Impressionism changed to Fauvism in Braque's hallucinatory forests, where solitary walkers lose themselves in oneiric expanses of yellow and purple& and then to Cubism.
  在布拉克幻觉的森林里，印象派变成了野兽派，孤独的行者迷失在黄色与紫色的茫茫大梦中。
• Visitors to the test events have marvelled at the space age structures but were surprised at the expanses of concrete and lack of greenery.
  参与测试活动的人们都对奥运场馆宇宙概念的架构表示惊叹，不过他们也指出混凝土的使用范围太广，场馆中缺乏绿色元素。
• Wallow in money We are rich in resources and vast expanses of fertile land.
  [口]在钱里打滚，非常富有我国资源丰富，沃野千里。
• We drove to the 'Free Body Culture' property, which involved a body of fresh water, expanses of bedraggled grass richly festooned with goose and duck droppings and a few stunted trees.
  我们驾车前往自由身体文化的活动场地，那里有一片淡水湖，广阔的草地上满是鹅和鸭的粪便，还有几棵矮小的树木。
• That the endless expanses of the Gobi Desert, then through the ages people died in the Gobi Desert heartbreaking.
  那一望无际的戈壁滩，那古往今来令人魂断心碎的戈壁滩。
• Instead of spray paint though, bits of white coral harvested from local beaches are arranged into messages, which seem to glow against the islands black lava expanses.
  尽可能避免油漆喷射，小块白色珊瑚虫是在局域海滩收获的被安排作为讯息使用，那个似乎发出光亮“心形珊瑚虫”构造和岛屿上的黑色火山岩形成强烈反差。
• The universe we know a set of distinct bodies separated by vast expanses of essentially empty space is a fairly recent development, cosmologically speaking.
  就宇宙学而言，我们所熟知的宇宙一个由众多相距遥远的独立个体所占据的广袤空间这其实是在宇宙演化的晚期才形成。