Earth

(noun.) the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell); 'it was hell on earth'.

(noun.) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; 'the Earth moves around the sun'; 'he sailed around the world'.

(noun.) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; 'they dug into the earth outside the church'.

(noun.) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

(verb.) connect to the earth; 'earth the circuit'.

(verb.) hide in the earth like a hunted animal.

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• Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Is there, indeed, such happiness on earth? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Besides, is it not a shame, that the genius of Adrian should fade from the earth like a flower in an untrod mountain-path, fruitless? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Is there any place like it on earth? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The try everything spirit of Edison's method is well illustrated in this early period by a series of about sixteen hundred resistance tests of various ores, minerals, earths, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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