After the rough sea voyage we were glad to reach terra firma 经过了海上航行的惊涛骇浪,我们十分高兴来到陆地上。
Endowed with terra firma grandeur , china is reputed as the single oldest uninterrupted civilization in the world 中国是一个幅员广阔,具有辉煌灿烂的文明史的独立主权国家。
Now , drawing on new insights , theories , measurements and technologies ? and perhaps a bit of scientific bravado ? they are forecasting the shape of terra firma in the distant future 现在,凭藉新的洞见、理论、测量和技术,以及也许再加上一点科学上的虚张声势,他们正在预测遥远的未来陆地的形貌。
Thus , we appreciate huxley ' s wry comment and note that even children get the humor of cartoon physics , where , for example , a character running off a cliff does not fall until he realizes that he has left terra firma 所以我们可以领略赫胥黎的揶揄之语,也能意会卡通里连小孩都看得懂的物理玩笑,例如卡通人物冲出悬崖之后,一直要到发现自己已经离开了陆地,才会从半空中掉下去。
As for his suspicions , once on terra firma , once that he had seen the indifferent , if not friendly , appearance of his hosts , his anxiety had quite disappeared , or rather , at sight of the goat , had turned to appetite 至于他以前的种种预测,在他登陆以后,看到那批主人的无所谓的即使不算是友谊的态度以后,他的成见已经打消了,或更准确一点说,是因为看到了那只山羊,以致他的念头已转到食欲上去了。
the solid part of the earth''s surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" 同义词:land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground
Terra firma is a Latin phrase meaning "solid earth" (from terra "earth" and firma "solid"). The phrase refers to the dry land mass on the earth's surface and is used to differentiate from the sea or air.