tropic 的 2 个定义
- Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one about 23½° N, and the other about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone.the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- Astronomy. either of two circles on the celestial sphere, one lying in the same plane as the tropic of Cancer, the other in the same plane as the tropic of Capricorn.
- of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or occurring in the tropics; tropical: romance under the tropic skies of Old Mexico.
tropic 近义词
very hot
of or relating to the tropics
更多tropic例句
- Instead, rafts of atmospheric wind deliver fresh ozone from the tropics, where it naturally forms, to the poles.
- At the same time, the Earth’s orbit around the sun was more oval, and seasonal variation in sunlight in the tropics was double what it is today.
- Very little is known about what animals in the tropics were going through during the exchange.
- An astronaut is unlikely to be infected with a disease from the tropics, for example.
- People living in places such as northern Europe, Canada and the United States could learn a thing or two from countries in the tropics, says Kurt Shickman.
- Mr Hock used to be an owner of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Times Square.
- In Tropic Thunder, he was a hopelessly deluded movie star in search of an Oscar.
- He did a comic turn in Tropic Thunder and a quirky commercial for Jimmy Kimmel that aired during the Oscars.
- "Tropic Thunder" was a modest hit ($159 million), but it cost a fortune to make ($100 million).
- Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.
- This specimen was obtained at Ascension, and is common in all parts of the Atlantic within or near the Tropic.
- Through the tracery of the lattice came the warm breeze, bearing the narcotic scent of those tropic gardens.
- That organ has only to exhale, in its degree, a fostering tropic air in order to produce complications almost beyond reckoning.
- Scurlocks voice, rising out of the softly-lit tropic evening, died suddenly.