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earthbound

/urth-bound/US // ˈɜrθˌbaʊnd //UK // (ˈɜːθˌbaʊnd) //

土生土长,土生土长的人,土生土长的,土生土长的人们

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : firmly set in or attached to the earth.
    • : limited to the earth or its surface.
    • : having only earthly interests.
    • : lacking in imagination or sophistication: earthbound prose.

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Examples

  • Cree First Nations people, for example, once believed they were the spirits of the dead trying to communicate with their earthbound loved ones.

  • The supernova that is gymnast Simone Biles has been explaining a phenomenon called “the twisties” for we who are more earthbound creatures.

  • This wordless, music-less, but not gruntless, film details the daily farm life of a mother pig, the Gunda of the title, who, after giving birth to a passel of little squigglies, cares for them with a kind of earthbound tenderness.

  • Theoretically, Ravn X could depart from an airport, deliver its payload to space, return back to the airport to be reloaded with a filled cargo module, then take off again for earthbound deliveries.

  • Scooter Braun came across an earthbound angel on YouTube in 2008.

  • But let us return to non-fiction, the knowable world, and frankly earthbound thoughts.

  • Sally carried the dreams of her earthbound sisters with grace and good humor.

  • Both the winged feathered kind, and the earthbound humanoids, waiting to be plucked.

  • Only earthbound creatures—like the star-fish, for instance—become all they can become in this sphere; man's soul must evolve.

  • He is far away in his dreamings now, without a thought for his earthbound fellow-creatures.

  • He saw that he was in the compartment of an interstellar ship and he knew that it was Earthbound.

  • Will the emancipated soul be less faithful than the souls still earthbound?

  • The big moon, no longer smoking in the earthbound haze, had risen into the clear dominion of the upper sky.