Surrounding

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surround

(a.) Inclosing; encircling.

(n.) An encompassing.

(n.) The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.

费利西亚编辑

• It was very pretty to look at, but seemed to have the effect of rendering surrounding objects rather darker than before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thoughts to the person, along with all the surrounding objects. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The heat given out by the condensing steam passes into the surrounding air and warms the room. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In winter the heat from the freezing water keeps the temperature of the surrounding higher than it would naturally be, and consequently the cold weather is less severe. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• And then a living mass of destruction sprang from the surrounding darkness full upon the creature that held me pinioned to the ground. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• At No. 8 is illustrated the preservation of liquid air by surrounding it with a vacuum in a Dewar bulb. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They are more like the Europeans in their facial type than the surrounding yellow Japanese. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is inclosed by the tube, which is also in one piece, surrounding the liner throughout its length. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For instance, if a dipper full of the liquid air is drawn, in an instant the outside of the dipper is covered with a coating of frost deposited upon it from the surrounding atmosphere. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Where the shadow fell the paper remained white, while the surrounding exposed parts darkened under the sun’s rays. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Of his immediate surroundings, his telescope is most intimately his environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Men have oftener suffered from, the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• However, I have done my best to make my surroundings agree with my nature, and the result is—Melnos. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• My friend's temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of Baker Street. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• For a moment I could neither place my surroundings nor locate the sounds which had aroused me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• All the surroundings were gay and enlivening. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Lily knew people who lived like pigs, and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But in fact such activity is explosive, and due to maladjustment with surroundings. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What could I become with these surroundings? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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