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borderland

/bawr-der-land/US // ˈbɔr dərˌlænd //UK // (ˈbɔːdəˌlænd) //

边境地区,边界地区,边界地带,边境地带

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : land forming a border or frontier.
    • : an uncertain, intermediate district, space, or condition.

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Examples

  • In many respects, these remote and geopolitically volatile borderlands might seem like an unlikely place to seek solutions for the crisis of travel in the covid era.

  • For people living in borderlands, those emotions are often negative.

  • This borderland—the interface of human activity and wild habitat—is the most dangerous region of all for bears.

  • But as the excellent blog Borderland Beat says, “Remember this is Mexico and anything can happen.”

  • Perhaps he also hopes he can keep Ukraine as a borderland instead of having it join NATO.

  • When the latest Russian aggression ends, Ukraine will still be a borderland caught between East and West.

  • Ukraine needs to embrace its historic role, not to mention its strategic reality, as a borderland.

  • The feeble loyalty of the native regiments at Lucknow sufficed to keep all the borderland of Nepaul quiet for nearly two months.

  • This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.

  • He felt that he had reached the land—or at least the borderland—of Bohemia, that Ultima Thule of every young literary dream.

  • It rather occupies a kind of borderland between them, coming under the head of philanthropy.

  • But even in this borderland He cannot be hid; and when the sick and needy throng around Him, He cannot turn away from them.