| 单词 | mahogany tree |
| 例句 | The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn to look, but there are too many men sitting under the shade of a mahogany tree. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Through the window we could see him sag against the trunk of our big mahogany tree. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, he found Beatrice Leep resting under a shady mahogany tree in a stranger’s backyard. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk up the hill, granite road turning to dust and mud and weeds, and turn down the path to the right of the mahogany tree. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He writes about the life of truck drivers traveling east from Lima, then over the Andes and down into the forest, where locating and milling mahogany trees can be illicit business. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z It boasts gorgeous gardens with a shady avenue of ancient mahogany trees. Off the beaten track in Barbados: readers’ tips 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Here you’ll be shaded by ancient mahogany trees and palms, and possibly teased, as I was, by the sound of green monkeys calling. Off the beaten track in Barbados: readers’ tips 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z A hot, dry wind blew as I stood under a large mahogany tree on the banks of the Blue Nile in the heart of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. Explorer: Pyramids by the Nile. Egypt? No, Sudan. 2012-10-05T15:50:42Z In the old days, it might take days to fell a single mahogany tree with an axe; now it took minutes. This Amazonian Indigenous Group Has Lessons in Sustainable Living for All of Us 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z KYEBI, Ghana — Below the towering mahogany trees that blanket this lush mountainside, hidden beneath the brown-red soil, lie millions of tons of very valuable rock. Mining Ghana’s bauxite would bring in billions from China. But it could also taint the water for 5 million people. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Several more hours in the minivan took us to the Mayan ruins of Palenque, a 7th century former city-state of stone temples surrounded by centuries-old red cedar, sapodilla and mahogany trees. Back to Chiapas 25 years after covering rebel uprising 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Clearly you're unable to imagine the ability of major hurricanes to destroy, snapping every limb off giant mahogany trees, tossing cinder blocks like leaves and snapping in half any telephone pole they couldn't push over. Hurricane Florence Updates: 12 Dead, Power Failures and Catastrophic Flooding 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Beyond the broken boats, past the mansion with its missing roof at the downtown park where 100-year-old mahogany trees had been stripped bare, a few West Indian almond trees had survived. In Irma-devastated Virgin Islands, resolve blends with worry of being forgotten 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z A sculpture of a mahogany tree in a park in Pucallpa symbolizes the economic importance of that species to Peru. For Earth Day, 14 Pictures of Extraordinary Trees 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z He uses a piece of wood from the tree they call the mahogany tree, a coconut and fishing line for strings. Island at the end of the earth 2013-12-30T00:27:31Z A few small mud huts stood among mahogany trees and big cottonwoods. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Two specimens were found beneath the bark of standing dead trees; another was found in the crack in the trunk of a mahogany tree about 13 meters above the ground. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z Then, with the gum of the okume, or African mahogany tree, he closes the mouth of the horn, as with a cork, to prevent the liquid contents from escaping. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z A sculpture of a mahogany tree in a park in Pucallpa symbolizes the economic importance of that species to Peru. For Earth Day, 14 Pictures of Extraordinary Trees 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z In this season's Printer's Pie your old friend and mine, Sir Henry Lucy, speaks of '"the old mahogany tree" in Bouverie Street, under which Thackeray for a while sat.' Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z I had no idea where the large mahogany tree might be situated, but made straight for the largest trunk that I could find, and, going round behind it, I discovered Cynthia. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z He saw again the magnificent groves of mahogany trees and coyal palms, with their golden flowers fully three feet in height, and the chicka sap oozing from the bark. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z In the interior little remains save cabbage palms and detached clumps of mangy-looking mahogany trees. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses A sculpture of a mahogany tree in a park in Pucallpa symbolizes the economic importance of that species to Peru. For Earth Day, 14 Pictures of Extraordinary Trees 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z An hour or so before daybreak I lay down on some dead fern at the foot of a huge and sombre red mahogany tree, where the track forked. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Do meet me in the garden, under the mahogany tree, at ten this evening. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z It was high noon when a party of horsemen, headed by a well-informed guide, in the person of the ranch superintendent, “old” Lopez, tore along the avenue of mahogany trees at Los Andes. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z There were great cabbage palms, cannon-ball trees, mahogany trees, almond trees, and many more which were wholly new acquaintances. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Once, rounding a sharp bend, she collided squarely with a huge mahogany tree, rolling and plunging menacingly in the seaward rushing waters. Carmen Ariza A large canoe, made from the straight trunk of a mahogany tree, is described as having been five feet in width and seventy-five feet long. Due South or Cuba Past and Present I found it," said Cynthia, "when I went back to the mahogany tree that evening. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Youm�ale arose gravely, threw a disdainful glance at the chevalier, then pointed at an enormous trunk of a mahogany tree with gnarled roots which formed the rustic bench upon which he had been sitting. A Romance of the West Indies In his hand he carried a club, cut from a mahogany tree in the American forests, not a trifle to carry. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The cart had solid wooden wheels, made out of one thick section that had been cut from a mahogany tree. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines There are mahogany trees in these hills reported to be of almost fabulous dimensions, besides other trees of great age. Due South or Cuba Past and Present They struggled on for a considerable time, however, von Schalckenberg leading the way, until at length they came to a small open space in the centre of which grew an enormous mahogany tree. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure On the other side of the world they have the mahogany tree for cabinet use, and here in America we have the black walnut, a cabinet wood that is not surpassed. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 I was half afraid that we should be coming upon sugar or coffee plantations, or perhaps men cutting down the great mahogany trees.” Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal It was the trunk of a mahogany tree, gnawed right into the centre by worms, but for which circumstance it would not have floated. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras After this they made their way for some distance inland, passing large forests of tamanas, or mahogany trees, which appeared to cover the greater part of the island. The Three Admirals We shall soon come into the zone of dwarf oaks and mahogany trees. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People And once they caught a brief glimpse of a terrific combat between what seemed to be two enormous rhinos, which had met in a little glen in the midst of a cluster of mahogany trees. Around the World in Ten Days The ground-squirrels, thinking from the silence that no one was within, ran up the mahogany tree at the side, and scampered over the canvas roof in glee. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Oh! merry the time when we all meet together In spite of the cold, the wind, and the weather, When grandparents, uncles, and cousins we see, All gather'd around the mahogany tree. The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers It was not an oak or mahogany tree, but a soft, pulpy, squashy squash that one could poke his finger into, nourished through a soft, succulent vine that one could mash between finger and thumb. Among the Forces I myself took refuge in a wood of mahogany trees, and it was my delight and my privilege to supply the requirements of the British colony in all that they desired. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 The mahogany tree is called caoba in Spanish, apparently the original Indian name, as the Spaniards probably first became acquainted with it in Cuba. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Nevertheless he refused to be discouraged and proceeded to plant forty-eight mahogany tree seeds brought by his nephew, George A. Washington, from the West Indies. George Washington: Farmer It stands in the hall, the mahogany tree; And very nice fruit it will bear, you'll agree; The turkeys and capons, the puddings and pies, On Christmas day feed something more than the eyes. The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers There are three other species of the genus Swietania besides the mahogany tree, two of them natives of the East Indies. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 The result of this was that I and a few personal friends took refuge in a forest in which mahogany trees flourished. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 At length, finding escape impossible, he makes for a broad mahogany tree, where he suddenly comes to bay. The Bushman — Life in a New Country There was exactly one mahogany tree on the island. Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion It is temperature which causes the moss and lichens of the barren tundras in the far north to be replaced by orchids, twining vines, and mahogany trees near the equator. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America The mahogany tree was not discovered till the end of the sixteenth century, and was not brought into European use till nearly a century later. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 The original two acres became Carey's Botanic Garden; the houses he surrounded and connected by mahogany trees, which grew to be of umbrageous beauty. Life of William Carey The years may darken as they flee, And Christmas bring his melancholy: But round the old mahogany tree We drink, we sing Heigh-ho, the Holly! Ban and Arriere Ban |
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