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high place

高处,居高临下,高地,高处不胜寒

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.

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Examples

  • He’s got friends in high places and they want to protect him.

  • If you lose sight of the bat, look for it in high places such as your curtain rod, the top of a bookshelf, or a hanging light fixture.

  • At 42, he has experienced more hurt and loss in high places than most who spend a lifetime there.

  • One fungus burns holes in flies’ bodies so spores will parachute down to infect flies below, while another fungus forces insects to go to a high place when they’re ready to die so that spores will rain from the air.

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

  • Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.

  • Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

  • The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.

  • Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).