zone

英 [zəʊn] 美 [zon]

解释

※ 提供单词"zone"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

zone 地区

来自拉丁语zone,地理分布带，来自PIE*yos,带子，腰带，词源同zoster.

zone (n.): late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt, the girdle worn by women at the hips," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yos- "to gird" (cognates: Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle"). The 10c. Anglo-Saxon treatise on astronomy translates Latin quinque zonas as fyf gyrdlas.

Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927.
zone (v.): 1760, "mark with zones," from zone (n.). Land use planning sense is from 1916. Related: Zoned; zoning.

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1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.: 设立了安全区以防止游击队员的渗入。

2. They fell into that twilight zone between military personnel and civilian employees.: 他们成了军队人员与平民雇员之间身份界定不清的人。

4. Many people have stayed behind in the potential war zone.: 许多人留在了可能会沦为交战区的地方。