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hemisphere

/hem-i-sfeer/US // ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər //UK // (ˈhɛmɪˌsfɪə) //

半球,半球体,半球形,半个地球

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided.Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
    • : a map or projection representing one of these halves.
    • : a half of a sphere.
    • : Anatomy. either of the lateral halves of the cerebrum or cerebellum.
    • : the area within which something occurs or dominates; sphere; realm.

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Examples

  • Garvey invited dozens of countries to join him in Jamaica, where he resided at the time, to “mark the progress the race has made” on the hemisphere.

  • Official reports showed historically low levels of flu-like illness among children and adults beginning in May, usually the start of flu season in that hemisphere.

  • Ski and snowboard teams typically send 100 or so people to the southern hemisphere — Chile, Argentina, New Zealand — to take advantage of fresh snow.

  • After the spy ring was crushed, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile definitively broke with Axis powers and sided with Allied powers, eliminating the threat that the western hemisphere would fall.

  • In the southern hemisphere, they’ll glow in the western sky.

  • The optimism across the hemisphere was obvious, but many challenges remain.

  • But the men from the Southern Hemisphere have the strength to shrug off that loss.

  • Polio, for example, has been eradicated in the Western hemisphere thanks to a vigorous international immunization program.

  • Chikungunya is on the radar now is because it has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere— the Caribbean to be precise.

  • He was convinced that ocean moats would never keep the Axis powers out of the Western Hemisphere.

  • This is one of the natural wonders of the southern hemisphere and is much visited by tourists traveling through New Zealand.

  • Pass under the pole and into another hemisphere; ascend to the stars,145 if possible.

  • Hardly a star was visible; even those of the southern hemisphere pale beside the southern moon.

  • His empire thus consolidated, he would be virtual master of half the solid earth in the Eastern hemisphere.

  • Her mission is confined to the Western Hemisphere, and over its borders no insult, no cajolery will avail to tempt her.