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 hemisphere ['hemisfiә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 半球, 地球的半面, 大脑半球

[医] 半球




    hemisphere
    [ noun ]
    1. half of the terrestrial globe

    2. <noun.location>
    3. half of a sphere

    4. <noun.shape>
    5. either half of the cerebrum

    6. <noun.body>


    Hemisphere \Hem"i*sphere\, n. [L. hemisphaerium, Gr. ?; ? half =
    ? sphere: cf. F. h['e]misph[`e]re. See {Hemi-}, and
    {Sphere}.]
    1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided
    by a plane passing through its center.

    2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same
    in a map or picture.

    3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere.

    He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere. --J. P.
    Peters.

    {Cerebral hemispheres}. (Anat.) See {Brain}.

    {Magdeburg hemispheres} (Physics), two hemispherical cups
    forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air
    can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the
    pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto
    von Guericke at Magdeburg.

    1. No country in the hemisphere gets more U.S. assistance than El Salvador, which President Reagan has held up as an example of success in Washington's avowed policy of fostering democracy in Latin America.
    2. Gilbert is one of only three Category 5 storms in the hemisphere since weather officials began keeping detailed records.
    3. But at a time when the United States has been emphasizing democractic development in the hemisphere, the administration felt it could not make an exception by showing friendship toward Pinochet.
    4. El Salvador receives more U.S. aid than any country in the Western hemisphere.
    5. The officials say all but two democratic countries in the hemisphere _ Mexico and Ecuador _ have withdrawn their ambassadors from Panama City.
    6. The United States and 31 other member nations of the Organization of American States on Friday formally signed a wide-ranging plan to speed up the hemisphere's war against drugs.
    7. "We've got to strengthen GATT as a matter of principle, as a sign to the emerging democracies in eastern Europe and in this hemisphere that free trade is the wave of the future," Bush said.
    8. "We easily arrive at a clearer picture of the last twenty years and a better understanding of the conflicts in the northern hemisphere, namely between East and West, as an important cause of the retardation or stagnation of the South.
    9. As it became obvious that the Sandinistas and the Cubans were directly stage managing the Salvadoran insurgency, President Reagan started to complain, like President Monroe, about "inviting alien influences and philosophies into the hemisphere."
    10. "We have better, cheaper land here than anywhere in the northern hemisphere and our production costs are less," said McGuigan.
    11. They had to make their effort early, and show what they are made of months ago, because they are at their best in their summer, which is in the northern hemisphere's winter.
    12. Austin's Comet will be observable throughout much of the Earth's northern hemisphere until the end of May, but it is not bright enough to be seen by the naked eye, he said.
    13. "Political development has been successful in the hemisphere, but we have not been as successful as we'd like on economic development," Quayle told reporters Thursday on the eve of his departure.
    14. IT IS high summer in the southern hemisphere, the peak season for beer drinkers.
    15. The report listed the hemisphere's major debtors as Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela and Colombia.
    16. Prosper Avril, the army's chief administrative officer, went on national television Sunday and declared himself president of the Western hemisphere's most impoverished nation.
    17. But they often exchange their complaints over late suppers in crowded Santiago restaurants and then make their way to new cars parked on dimly lit streetssomething the middle class would fear doing in most other large cities anywhere in the hemisphere.
    18. Word of the proposed effort, coming days after the U.S. invasion of Panama, has touched off rumors around the hemisphere that the United States may try to blockade Colombia or perhaps even invade as an encore to the Panama intervention.
    19. Beyond that, there is an emerging consensus in the hemisphere that radical economic reform is required to help the region escape from the "lost decade" of the 1980s - a period in which production, investment and consumption all fell sharply.
    20. "But I am going to continue to reiterate the importance, not just to the United States but to the whole hemisphere, of the aid package that I have requested," Bush said.
    21. It came as a shock to realise that the greatest such collection in the southern hemisphere was held by a dwindling band of brothers in the empty sheep country of western Australia. But then New Norcia does come as a shock.
    22. Mexico remains the most Catholic country in the hemisphere nonetheless, and the church has not faded.
    23. Journalists itching to get to the hemisphere's story of the year have sometimes chafed at the restrictions imposed on them by the U.S. military.
    24. It also acknowledged that Cuba is not immune from a problem that afflicts much of the hemisphere.
    25. Be it August powder or September corn, this is some of the finest helicopter skiing you will find in either hemisphere. Heights: Resort 5,116 ft. Skiing 9,328 ft. Difficulty of runs: Helicopter skiing.
    26. In Eastern Europe, in this hemisphere, the triumph of democracy has cast its warm light on the face of the world like a miraculous dawn.
    27. Washington sent El Salvador almost $600 million in military and economic aid last year, more than the amount given to any country in the hemisphere.
    28. But for the outward-bound survivalists who persist in packing shotguns and baked beans, the currencies of the remoter reaches of the southern hemisphere would seem a better bet than the dollar.
    29. Brazilian plantations were more productive than those in the northern hemisphere.
    30. Moreover, failure in Mexico would echo throughout the hemisphere.
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