单词
zone
英 [z??n]
美[zon]
基本信息
- n. 地带；地区；联防
- vi. 分成区
- vt. 使分成地带；环绕
- n. (Zone)人名；(塞)佐内
CET4TEM4GRE考研TOEFLCET6中频词核心词汇
词态变化
复数:?zones;第三人称单数:?zones;过去式:?zoned;过去分词:?zoned;现在分词:?zoning;
中文词源
zone 地区
来自拉丁语zone,地理分布带，来自PIE*yos,带子，腰带，词源同zoster.
英文词源
- zone (n.)
- late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt, the girdle worn by women at the hips," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yos- "to gird" (cognates: Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle"). The 10c. Anglo-Saxon treatise on astronomy translates Latin quinque zonas as fyf gyrdlas.
Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927. - zone (v.)
- 1760, "mark with zones," from zone (n.). Land use planning sense is from 1916. Related: Zoned; zoning.
双语例句
- 1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.
- 设立了安全区以防止游击队员的渗入。
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- 2. They fell into that twilight zone between military personnel and civilian employees.
- 他们成了军队人员与平民雇员之间身份界定不清的人。
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- 3. The area could be turned into a demilitarized zone.
- 该地区可能会成为非军事区。
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- 4. Many people have stayed behind in the potential war zone.
- 许多人留在了可能会沦为交战区的地方。
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- 5. The U.N. has declared it to be a safe zone.
- 联合国已宣布它为安全区。
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