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atlantic

/at-lan-tik/US // ætˈlæn tɪk //UK // (ətˈlæntɪk) //

大西洋,大洋洲,大西洋集团,亚特兰大

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the Atlantic Ocean.
    • : of, relating to, or situated on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.: the Atlantic states.
    • : of or relating to the countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean, especially those of North America and Europe.
    • : of or relating to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or its members: the Atlantic Alliance.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the Atlantic Ocean.
    • : Railroads. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.

Examples

  • In March 2020, The Atlantic launched a daily podcast about living through the pandemic, called “Social Distance.”

  • Alexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and co-founder of the Covid Tracking Project, which compiles, annotates, and publishes high-quality data about the outbreak.

  • A wedge of milder air intrudes off the warm Atlantic, in the lower layer of the cloud.

  • They met on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic, each from the shore of a different continent.

  • Watching this all from across the Atlantic, the DoJ has slowly collected and built evidence to take on Google.

  • There was Air France Flight 447, which fell into the south Atlantic in 2009.

  • The Atlantic has reported extensively on the at least $600 million Amazon stands to be paid for handling CIA data.

  • “The youngest old man any of us knows,” an unnamed friend of Atlantic Publisher David Bradley said of Hughes.

  • Much like the Taj Mahal, Revel opened in classically gaudy Atlantic City style in April 2012—with a sunrise Champagne toast.

  • Notoriously, Atlantic City did not get its first supermarket until 1996.

  • There is still a general tendency in universities on both sides of the Atlantic to treat propaganda as infection.

  • He had the sun-scorched look of a traveller who has just crossed the Atlantic, and he smiled at Bernard with his honest eyes.

  • It was republished at once in America, and was welcomed as warmly on this side of the Atlantic as on the other.

  • Their territory extended 400 miles on the Atlantic coast, and "from the Atlantic westward to the South sea."

  • Many wonderful things were seen by the sailors as they crossed the broad Atlantic.

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