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单词 alpine
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Definition of alpine in English:

alpine

adjectiveˈalpʌɪnˈælˌpaɪn
  • 1Relating to high mountains.

    (与)高山(有关)的

    alpine and subalpine habitats

    高山和亚高山带栖息地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is a bright summer's day, and the scenery all around is pleasant - alpine mountain ranges in the distance, green grass and tall trees elsewhere.
    • Hiking to glacial lakes and waterfalls in the high alpine terrain, we'll access vistas where Napi looks over his people.
    • The Bavarian Lodge offers nature tours into Williams Lake Glacial Canyon, a unique alpine wetland.
    • In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
    • Some of the characters believed to be correlated with DNA amount are alpine habitat, life history and breeding system.
    • I was one of the first people to see the Staunings Alps in 1954, a fantastic alpine terrain which is full of marvellous, unclimbed peaks and with continuous daylight in summer.
    • Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields.
    • On the telephone she sung hymns to the joys of alpine mountain biking.
    • In late summer, many move to alpine and sub-alpine meadows.
    • Spotted Sandpipers breed in a variety of freshwater habitats from sea level to alpine areas, although they are not as common at higher elevations.
    • In alpine environments, plants may be exposed to high temperatures during the day, but may be subject to overnight lows near freezing.
    • They inhabit every terrestrial ecosystem on earth, from rainforest canopies to alpine mountains, from lakes and rivers to hot dry deserts.
    • And it seems admirers have a treat in store this year on Girraween's alpine style heathlands, meadows and high altitude forests.
    • The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
    • Vermont is crammed with forested mountains, cliffs and alpine streams that form the basis for ice climbing: frozen rock faces and gullies laced with frozen waterfalls and icy snowmelt.
    • Mountain Bluebirds can be found in alpine parklands in the Cascades, the Blue Mountains, and the northeast corner of Washington.
    • Imagine the perfect alpine backdrop: Mountain peaks surround you as far as the eye can see.
    • Our journey takes us through about 41 miles of incredible Sierra terrain, high alpine passes, glistening lakes, and snow-dotted mountains.
    • They generally prefer open country and can be found in habitat from salt marshes at sea level to areas of alpine tundra at high elevation.
    • The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there.
    Synonyms
    hilly, craggy, rocky, high, steep, precipitous
    1. 1.1 Relating to the Alps.
      (与)阿尔卑斯(有关)的
      Alpine guides

      阿尔卑斯山向导。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's now as smooth and gleaming, and as ruddily glowing, as a freshly deforested Alpine slope at sunset.
      • Legend has it that the cold Alpine winters made it impossible to deliver milk, so this ultra creamy, runny cheese was made with the milk instead.
      • Those trees, and the four-star hotel's external wooden features, lend it an almost Alpine appearance.
      • Her virtual car lurches forward, overtaking a rival competitor tearing around the Alpine race track.
      • In between desert trips, she became an intrepid Alpine climber.
      • You can play tennis for a couple of hours a day, then relax in the beautiful Alpine surroundings, or you can take the sporty theme and run with it.
      • Marvel at the terrifying Alpine passes into Switzerland and the Gothic architecture of Germany and Belgium.
      • The gas would be piped in from the Alpine oil and gas field, eight miles north of the Inupiat village of about 450 people.
      • He was allowed to remain temporarily in the Alpine country after filing an appeal against the decision.
      • This is a lovely Alpine setting, with the loch beautifully cradled below the steep Sgor Iutharn and its Lancet Edge ridge.
      • Taking the family skiing over Christmas or half-term can cost a fortune, so would it make more sense to invest in your own Alpine property?
      • So keen was she on the area that she spent £500,000 and four years buying and renovating her own Alpine chalet.
      • You get to watch benevolently, breathe in crisp Alpine air, sip Swiss wine and wolf down chocolates by the handful.
      • Beaver Creek village is a facsimile of an idealised Alpine village, with inconveniences such as ice and cattle removed.
      • At first sight, it is your standard-issue Alpine hotel: built on old cattle pasture and still run by the family that owned the cows.
      • The compressed blue ice which is visible deep inside an Alpine crevasse will have fallen as snow several decades earlier.
      • But all seemed normal in the picture-postcard Alpine village of 3117 people.
      • It has long been known that high Alpine grass has potent qualities.
      • Mont Chery, almost its own little Alpine resort in miniature, is to the immediate east of Les Gets.
      • The Alpine scenery takes on a completely different aspect in summer.
    2. 1.2Skiing Relating to or denoting skiing downhill.
      (与)高山下坡滑雪(有关)的
      an alpine ski team

      高山滑雪队。常与NORDIC 相对。

      Often contrasted with Nordic
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This was a hoot, since the exam was given on an alpine hill that I skied on with my long, skinny, wooden skis.
      • Events include snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and alpine downhill racing at the Sunshine Village, one of the most exclusive areas of Banff in the Canadian Rockies.
      • The Alpine Trekker is simply a dummy ski-boot sole that you clip into your alpine ski binding.
      • Shops and restaurants would complete the building, set to overtake Milton Keynes as the biggest indoor alpine ski complex in Britain.
      • But, more than the excitement, the sheer seclusion and beauty that a quiet alpine ski run can give is something rarely experienced.
nounˈalpʌɪnˈælˌpaɪn
  • 1A plant native to mountain districts, often suitable for growing in rock gardens.

    高山植物(常适于种植在石头花园中)

    a collection of alpines and dwarf bulbs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The four acre garden provides a decorative home for many interesting and unusual plants including a large rock garden with rare alpines, colourful herbaceous borders, rhododendrons and a choice collection of tress and shrubs.
    • Trough gardens are ideal places to display tiny horticultural treasures: dwarf conifers, alpines, miniature succulents, and other precious little plants.
    • Striking this seam of rock marked the beginning of a fundamental change in the way she gardened, and she decided to concentrate on making the most of what she had by planting with alpines.
    • Believe it or not, although I have gardened for years on a property that contains plants from fruit trees through small alpines, I do not own a pressure sprayer.
    • As well as bedding plants, Mrs Malkinson grows a range of herbaceous perennials and alpines which are displayed at her front door.
  • 2A North American butterfly which has brownish-black wings with orange-red markings.

    高山蝶

    Genus Erebia, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here we use mark-recapture methods to estimate movement of the alpine butterfly through both meadow and forest habitats
    • An increasing amount of forests along ridgetops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is reducing the ability of some alpine butterflies to disperse among patches of suitable habitat.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin Alpinus, from Alpes 'Alps' (see alp).

Rhymes

cisalpine

Definition of alpine in US English:

alpine

adjectiveˈalˌpīnˈælˌpaɪn
  • 1usually attributive Relating to high mountains.

    (与)高山(有关)的

    alpine and subalpine habitats

    高山和亚高山带栖息地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And it seems admirers have a treat in store this year on Girraween's alpine style heathlands, meadows and high altitude forests.
    • Some of the characters believed to be correlated with DNA amount are alpine habitat, life history and breeding system.
    • Our journey takes us through about 41 miles of incredible Sierra terrain, high alpine passes, glistening lakes, and snow-dotted mountains.
    • The Bavarian Lodge offers nature tours into Williams Lake Glacial Canyon, a unique alpine wetland.
    • It is a bright summer's day, and the scenery all around is pleasant - alpine mountain ranges in the distance, green grass and tall trees elsewhere.
    • Spotted Sandpipers breed in a variety of freshwater habitats from sea level to alpine areas, although they are not as common at higher elevations.
    • Imagine the perfect alpine backdrop: Mountain peaks surround you as far as the eye can see.
    • Hiking to glacial lakes and waterfalls in the high alpine terrain, we'll access vistas where Napi looks over his people.
    • In late summer, many move to alpine and sub-alpine meadows.
    • The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there.
    • Mountain Bluebirds can be found in alpine parklands in the Cascades, the Blue Mountains, and the northeast corner of Washington.
    • They generally prefer open country and can be found in habitat from salt marshes at sea level to areas of alpine tundra at high elevation.
    • Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields.
    • They inhabit every terrestrial ecosystem on earth, from rainforest canopies to alpine mountains, from lakes and rivers to hot dry deserts.
    • On the telephone she sung hymns to the joys of alpine mountain biking.
    • In alpine environments, plants may be exposed to high temperatures during the day, but may be subject to overnight lows near freezing.
    • I was one of the first people to see the Staunings Alps in 1954, a fantastic alpine terrain which is full of marvellous, unclimbed peaks and with continuous daylight in summer.
    • In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
    • Vermont is crammed with forested mountains, cliffs and alpine streams that form the basis for ice climbing: frozen rock faces and gullies laced with frozen waterfalls and icy snowmelt.
    • The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
    Synonyms
    hilly, craggy, rocky, high, steep, precipitous
    1. 1.1 Relating to the Alps.
      (与)阿尔卑斯(有关)的
      the major Alpine ski venues
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You get to watch benevolently, breathe in crisp Alpine air, sip Swiss wine and wolf down chocolates by the handful.
      • Marvel at the terrifying Alpine passes into Switzerland and the Gothic architecture of Germany and Belgium.
      • You can play tennis for a couple of hours a day, then relax in the beautiful Alpine surroundings, or you can take the sporty theme and run with it.
      • Those trees, and the four-star hotel's external wooden features, lend it an almost Alpine appearance.
      • Beaver Creek village is a facsimile of an idealised Alpine village, with inconveniences such as ice and cattle removed.
      • Her virtual car lurches forward, overtaking a rival competitor tearing around the Alpine race track.
      • Taking the family skiing over Christmas or half-term can cost a fortune, so would it make more sense to invest in your own Alpine property?
      • So keen was she on the area that she spent £500,000 and four years buying and renovating her own Alpine chalet.
      • At first sight, it is your standard-issue Alpine hotel: built on old cattle pasture and still run by the family that owned the cows.
      • In between desert trips, she became an intrepid Alpine climber.
      • It's now as smooth and gleaming, and as ruddily glowing, as a freshly deforested Alpine slope at sunset.
      • This is a lovely Alpine setting, with the loch beautifully cradled below the steep Sgor Iutharn and its Lancet Edge ridge.
      • The compressed blue ice which is visible deep inside an Alpine crevasse will have fallen as snow several decades earlier.
      • The Alpine scenery takes on a completely different aspect in summer.
      • It has long been known that high Alpine grass has potent qualities.
      • But all seemed normal in the picture-postcard Alpine village of 3117 people.
      • Mont Chery, almost its own little Alpine resort in miniature, is to the immediate east of Les Gets.
      • Legend has it that the cold Alpine winters made it impossible to deliver milk, so this ultra creamy, runny cheese was made with the milk instead.
      • He was allowed to remain temporarily in the Alpine country after filing an appeal against the decision.
      • The gas would be piped in from the Alpine oil and gas field, eight miles north of the Inupiat village of about 450 people.
    2. 1.2Skiing (of skiing) involving downhill racing.
      an alpine ski team

      高山滑雪队。常与NORDIC 相对。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Events include snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and alpine downhill racing at the Sunshine Village, one of the most exclusive areas of Banff in the Canadian Rockies.
      • But, more than the excitement, the sheer seclusion and beauty that a quiet alpine ski run can give is something rarely experienced.
      • Shops and restaurants would complete the building, set to overtake Milton Keynes as the biggest indoor alpine ski complex in Britain.
      • The Alpine Trekker is simply a dummy ski-boot sole that you clip into your alpine ski binding.
      • This was a hoot, since the exam was given on an alpine hill that I skied on with my long, skinny, wooden skis.
nounˈalˌpīnˈælˌpaɪn
  • 1A plant native to mountain districts, often suitable for growing in rock gardens.

    高山植物(常适于种植在石头花园中)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The four acre garden provides a decorative home for many interesting and unusual plants including a large rock garden with rare alpines, colourful herbaceous borders, rhododendrons and a choice collection of tress and shrubs.
    • As well as bedding plants, Mrs Malkinson grows a range of herbaceous perennials and alpines which are displayed at her front door.
    • Trough gardens are ideal places to display tiny horticultural treasures: dwarf conifers, alpines, miniature succulents, and other precious little plants.
    • Striking this seam of rock marked the beginning of a fundamental change in the way she gardened, and she decided to concentrate on making the most of what she had by planting with alpines.
    • Believe it or not, although I have gardened for years on a property that contains plants from fruit trees through small alpines, I do not own a pressure sprayer.
  • 2A North American butterfly which has brownish-black wings with orange-red markings.

    高山蝶

    Genus Erebia, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An increasing amount of forests along ridgetops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is reducing the ability of some alpine butterflies to disperse among patches of suitable habitat.
    • Here we use mark-recapture methods to estimate movement of the alpine butterfly through both meadow and forest habitats

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin Alpinus, from Alpes ‘Alps’ (see alp).

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