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inland

/adjective in-luhnd; adverb, noun in-land, -luhnd/US // adjective ˈɪn lənd; adverb, noun ˈɪnˌlænd, -lənd //

内陆地区,内陆,内陆地区的,内陆的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region: inland cities.
    • : British. domestic or internal: inland revenue.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in or toward the interior of a country.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the interior part of a country.

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Examples

  • Once the shoreline of a great inland sea, the sandstone here is roughly 320 million years old and reaches four miles below the surface.

  • That probably means we’ll have to rethink the system, rip infrastructure out of the ground and move it inland where it’s safe from waves.

  • The situation is worse in southwestern and inland northwestern states.

  • The Abenaki people, who have migrated between this coast and inland Maine for thousands of years, share their continuing story at the Abbe Museum, which has a location both inside and outside the park.

  • Conservationists are also worried about Pakistan’s inland waterways project, under which the Indus is to be developed for goods transportation by giant vessels.

  • To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.

  • Another ship, the Eduard Bohlen, currently rests half-buried inland after crashing in 1909.

  • They scrambled onto boats to Lebanon, Jordan or Gaza, or raced inland.

  • Follow that borderline inland for a couple hundred kilometers and what do you hit?

  • Now dense settlements crowd coastlines, and inland areas are no longer empty.

  • Thus four thousand Indians at most roam through, rather than occupy, these vast stretches of inland territory and sea-shore.

  • This was bordered by salt marshes only, covered occasionally at spring tides by the sea, some of which extended pretty far inland.

  • The tidal rivers mentioned previously are actually estuaries of Chesapeake Bay and they flow periodically inland.

  • Dead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!

  • Deedes also met me and the whole band of us made our way inland to my battle dugout.