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

• There is soil that looks like broad expanses of red silk, decorated with the long curving rows of pink and white flowers of the cotton plant.
  此地还有红绸般的大片土壤，上面点缀着棉地里的粉红色和白色花朵。
• On a recent rainy afternoon, Zeng Guohui, a41-year-old laborer, walked to an abandoned mine where he used to shovel ore, and pointed out still-barren expanses of dirt and mud.
  在一个即将下雨的下午，曾国辉，这个41岁的工人，来到了在他过去工作过的废弃矿井旁，这里仍然是一片泥泞的荒凉的地方。
• For example, many of California's prisons are sited in the Central Valley's wide expanses, in what is sometimes called an "archipelago".
  例如，加利福尼亚许多监狱像人们有时候所说的“群岛”一样分布于中央谷广袤的土地上。
• 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。
• We stood on the high ridge, looking down on the flaming expanses of broomcorn.
  我们站在高岗上，俯察那片火红的高粱地。
• They often contains wide expanses of plate glass in steel or concrete frames. This contrasted with the ( largely Victorian) red brick universities and the older ancient universities.
  它们的校舍通常在混凝土结构中大量使用平板玻璃，和以维多利亚风格为主的红砖大学以及更古老的古典大学形成对比。
• We are rich in resources and vast expanses of fertile land.
  我国资源丰富，沃野千里。
• 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。
• 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。
• An air photograph taken at that time would have revealed spotted villages, linked together by unsurfaced roads and separated by expanses of forest or swamp.
  那个年代里做的空中拍照能显示出错落有致的村庄，用凹凸不平的道路连着，也被铺展的一片片森林或沼泽彼此隔开着。