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promontory

/prom-uhn-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈprɒm ənˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈprɒməntərɪ, -trɪ) //

岬角,海角,海角区,海角地带

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural prom·on·to·ries.

    • : a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
    • : a bluff, or part of a plateau, overlooking a lowland.
    • : Anatomy. a prominent or protuberant part.

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Examples

  • As well as if a promontory were,as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were.

  • Promontory is something else, former regulators who help banks comply with—and predict— what their regulators do.

  • Have the president drive in the golden fence post at Promontory Point II and sign the amnesty right there.

  • One of the woods of this forest, advancing far into the inundated valley, formed a sort of promontory above the sheet of water.

  • "That sandy promontory on the extremity of which stands Fortress Monroe," he answered.

  • The promontory Trogilium itself may be considered as a foot of the mountain Mycale.

  • On the coast of the continent opposite to the Myndian territory is Astypalæa a promontory, and Zephyrium.

  • Above Soli in the interior is Limenia a city, then follows the promontory of Crommyon.