Spanned的意思|Spanned的解释-里氏词典

spanned [spænd]

a. [生](细胞或微生物的培养)生活期有限的

His life had almost completed its span.
他的生命几已到尽头。
The river Thames is spanned by many bridges.
泰晤士河上有很多桥.

Span \Span\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spanned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spanning}.] [AS. pannan; akin to D. & G. spannen, OHG.
spannan, Sw. sp["a]nna, Dan. sp[ae]nde, Icel. spenna, and
perh. to Gr. ? to draw, to drag, L. spatium space. [root]170.
Cf. {Spin}, v. t., {Space}, {Spasm}.]
1. To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers
extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as,
to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.

My right hand hath spanned the heavens. --Isa.
xiviii. 13.

2. To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as
an arch.

The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
--prescott.

3. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

The losses spanned the yield curve.
Wyeth invented 25 processes and products that spanned a wide range, including plastics, textile fibers, electronics and mechanical systems.
The survey, launched several weeks after the Oct. 19 crash, has spanned a period in which real estate markets softened in some areas and several economists offered predictions of a return to inflation or recession.
After working together as patent examiners in Berne early in the century, Einstein and Besso kept up a lifelong correspondence that spanned five decades.
The Cubans describe an intricate network that spanned South America, including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the Mexican border.
The case has spanned nearly three decades.
Walter T. Ridder, a former member of the Knight-Ridder, Inc., board of directors whose newspaper career spanned 50 years, died Saturday.
His career at the university spanned 44 years.
James Hopkins Billings, whose career as a journalist for Springfield newspapers spanned nearly five decades, died Tuesday.
Beech, who began as a copy boy in St. Petersburg, Fla., had a career that spanned five decades, including positions as a feature writer with the Akron Beacon Journal and Washington correspondent for The Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Mrs. St. Johns, whose reporting career spanned nearly 60 years and included such major stories as the Lindbergh kidnapping, had been hospitalized at the South County Convalescent Hospital.
Bowles' life spanned the great age of gardening, from 1865 to 1954.
Cornel Wilde, whose fabled career on the big screen spanned nearly 50 years and included an Academy Award nomination for "A Song To Remember," died of leukemia Monday, just three days after he turned 74.
Magnuson, a Democrat whose congressional career spanned 44 years, died Saturday at his Seattle home of congestive heart failure, brought on by his long fight with diabetes.
His career spanned the '50s, '60s and '70s, he played 29 internationals for Ireland, and in 1955 set a record for touchdowns scored on tours, which remains unbroken.
The actor appeared opposite such stars as Buddy Ebsen, Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in a career that spanned vaudeville to television.
Birnbaum, a native Austrian who was an expert in ancient Jewish languages, wrote two books on Hebrew and Yiddish and dozens of articles and research papers in an academic career that spanned most of this century.
Madeleine Ozeray, the Belgian actress whose career spanned a half century of French cinema and received France's highest cultural honor, has died in Paris at age 80, a newspaper said today.
The actor, whose career spanned more than 40 years, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a family spokesman said.
"In an investment banking career that has spanned three decades, Nick Brady has earned the respect of the financial and economic communities for his integrity and professional accomplishments," the president said.
His career in England spanned all aspects of the stage _ matinee idol, classical actor supreme, theater director and producer.
Robert Shaplen, a correspondent and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine who became an expert on Asia in a career that spanned five decades, has died.
A total of 20 million inhabit the mountainous area where the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and the Soviet Union converge, and their fight for autonomy has spanned generations.
That sentiment spanned ideologies, but was backed more strongly by men, 64 percent, than women, 45 percent.
Miniver," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sunrise at Campobello" in a career that spanned 40 years.
His 51 years as head of state spanned the rise of this tiny democratic state from an underdeveloped and rural country to a sophisticated industrialized nation with one of the world's highest per-capita incomes.
Garson, 77, won an Academy Award in 1943 for the film "Mrs. Miniver" during a career that spanned about 40 years on stage and in the movies.
A two-time Academy Award winner, Miss Davis made 86 movies in a career that spanned more than 50 years.
Richard J.V. Johnson, president and publisher of the Chronicle, said that the negotiations with Hearst had spanned "a few months," but that no one from the Chronicle had been involved.
Pornographic film star John Holmes, who boasted of thousands of sexual conquests during a career that spanned two decades, died at a hospital, a business associate said Sunday.

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