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oasis

/oh-ey-sis/US // oʊˈeɪ sɪs //UK // (əʊˈeɪsɪs) //

绿洲,绿州,沙漠,绿色的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural o·a·ses [oh-ey-seez]. /oʊˈeɪ siz/.

    • : a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
    • : something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from what is usual, annoying, difficult, etc.: The library was an oasis of calm in the hectic city.

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Examples

  • Ribbon Falls, a sacred site of the Zuni people, is an incredible green oasis in the sea of red.

  • Even though people aren’t on the go, the home used to be an oasis.

  • All these inventions allowed small oases of civilization to be wrested from a natural wilderness that seemed endless.

  • They’re basically like oases — these islands in the middle of a desert of sand.

  • Most galling of all, Gow said, is the prospect that his ranch, his oasis, could suddenly become a thruway for construction and maintenance, an avenue for aerial surveillance and regular pesticide spraying that he would have no control over.

  • You might be surprised to hear that hidden in Tampa, Florida is a food oasis of the Cuban persuasion.

  • The pop-punk of Green Day, the Britpop of Oasis, the alternative arena rock of Weezer.

  • And, as it turns out, a necessary zen oasis from the deafening screams of tweenage girls as this Austin Mahone character performs.

  • Even so, in the turbulent Middle East of the Arab Spring Lebanon has been an oasis of calm and relative affluence.

  • They rushed out in bathrobes and slippers, their blissful oasis near a suburban mall suddenly transformed into a horror scene.

  • A trick like this—a generosity so distinct as this—is a real oasis in the ecclesiastical desert.

  • We now enter the Palais Royal, that strange white and green oasis into which it is so simple never to stray.

  • Now I was filled with the desire to lie here in this “oasis” and live at ease and sniff the clean fragrance of mountain plants.

  • He is the one refreshing oasis in the desert wilderness of the Classical school.

  • It would be an oasis in this desert—that Express car; but lo!