单词 | Gibbon |
例句 | 1. The lessons of Gibbon are put away. 2. The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water, eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal. 3. The one enormous danger to a young gibbon that its father can guard against is murder by another male gibbon. 4. I am conversant with Gibbon, Toynbee, your better class of historians. 5. But soon the influence of Hume and Gibbon, Rousseau and Voltaire brought every authority into question. 6. Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon is a testing version. 7. What is the Black Gibbon staring at? 8. The larynx of the gibbon deviates from the basic plan found in the Pongidae and man, thus reflecting its special phylogenetic position. 9. In the 1770s Edward Gibbon had little difficulty imagining Islamic theology being taught in Oxford and across Britain—if only the battle of Tours-Poitiers in 732 had turned out differently. 10. Gibbon adapted to the forest with its long lithe arms. 11. Edward Gibbon is the greatest British historian in the 18th century, who is also prominent in Western rationalism historiography. 12. Another was reading Gibbon unabridged. The one who'd been subsisting on Yoplait and radishes was in the bathroom, changing her hair color again. 13. Gibbon, however, is of opinion that theirs was a valid marriage. 14. Edward Gibbon considered the whole history of Byzantine lasting over 1000 years as a miserable experience. 15. A gibbon is better adapted than a man for life in a low gravitational force. 16. The hoolock gibbon mainly distributes in the mid-mountain humid evergreen broad-leaved forest. 17. Mostly, she was off; travelling the world with Mr Gibbon, her constant companion for twenty-nine of those thirty years. 18. At first glance I thought I was looking at a cross between a gibbon and a goat. 19. An important early modern historian was the British scholar Edward Gibbon. 20. If you go through college without reading Thucydides, Herodotus and Gibbon, you'll have been cheated out of a great repertoire of comparisons. 21. Vain was that ambition, surely not an ignoble one, to set his name beside those of Gibbon and Mommsen. 22. Human beings and all their works are subject, as Edward Gibbon said, to "the vicissitudes of fortune." 23. Gibbon species include the siamang, the white-handed or lar gibbon, and the hoolock gibbons. 24. Some liana, widely distributed in the study area, was possibly the major food resource of black crested gibbon. 25. Barring gunpowder and the printing press, his world and Hadrian's were close enough to let Gibbon swap breeches for a toga and barely notice the difference. 26. Making his own choice of the best time to have been alive, Edward Gibbon, author of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1776-89), didn't have much doubt. 27. My sober mind was no longer intoxicated by the fumes of politics(Edward Gibbon. 28. "the increasing hatred, which retarded the execution of his great designs" (Edward Gibbon). 29. In Lausanne, they paid theirrespects at the house of Edward Gibbon, where he penned his revered epichistory, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." 30. A great?grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendents. 31. Epicures, the most prudent time-travellers, will follow Gibbon to Rome, or time their birth to dodge a call-up for the world wars and surf the Pax Americana. 32. Any of various large, tailless Old World primates of the family Pongidae, including the chimpanzee, gorilla, gibbon, and orangutan. 33. Liana was the main media and connection through which hoolock gibbon traveled between arbor forests and shrubs. 34. Further down in the right-hand column: ; That is a man's sentence ; behind it one can see Johnson, Gibbon and the rest. 35. Looking like ET , a baby gibbon is held by its mother in Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo. 36. It includes primates such as the extinct giant ape Gigantopithecus, as well as the ancestors of the living orangutan (Pongo) and gibbon (Hylobates). 37. A great grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. 38. In a chapter he regards Edward Gibbon and Samuel Johnson's style as pompous. 39. Works of scholarship -- the economic analyses of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, the histories of Thucydides and Edward Gibbon -- provide frameworks for making sense of the past and the present. 40. Thousands of sandhill cranes roost on the Platte River during their annual migratory stopover at the Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska. 41. Any of various large , tailless Old World Pongidae , including the chimpanzee, gorilla, gibbon, and orangutan. 42. Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself---Edward Gibbon, English historian. 43. With its spectacular locomotion and haunting, bird-like calls, the cao vit gibbon is a real show-stealer. |
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