音标:[si'eәrәni'vædә, -'vɑ:-] ;
n. 内华达山脉(美国加利福尼亚州东部的花岗岩块状山脉)
词型变化:名词复数形式 : sierra nevadas

Sierra Nevada的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The end of the Sierra Nevada cuts off all rain.内华达山脉的尾部把雨水全挡住了。
  2. Offering windy and hilly conditions, the site includes a section of the Mojave Desert and the southern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.具备多风多山条件的该项目地点包括莫哈韦沙漠的一部分,以及内华达山脉的南端。
【近义词】

Nevada Families Struggle with Poverty in Shadow of Casinos In the shadow of the glittering casinos and resorts of Las Vegas, Nevada, many poor families are struggling to get by. Several recent studies have found that one in five American children liv

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(八月)

Nevada is one of a handful of so-called swing states that could decide the U.S. presidential election. Nevada voted for the Republicans in 2000 and 2004, but Mike O'Sullivan reports from the town of Pahrump in rural Nevada, a shift toward Democrats

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

By Kari Barber Washington 01 October 2007 Sierra Leone's long civil war was especially brutal, with children serving as soldiers and rebels hacking off the limbs of civilians. When it ended, the country lay in ruin, a once thriving tourist industry

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

Y: 各位听众好,我是杨晨!欢迎您到美语咖啡屋! J: Hello I'm Jody! Welcome to American Cafe! (sigh) You know, Yang Chen, we are really lucky to work in Washington, D.C. Y: Lucky? 很幸

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 美语咖啡屋

By Kari Barber Dakar 20 October 2007 Residents in the region along the Sierra Leone-Liberian border say the re-opening of a bridge connecting the two countries has brought increased trade as people cross to buy and sell goods. During recent civil war

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

AS IT IS 2016-02-22 Clinton Wins in Nevada, Trump in South Carolina On Saturday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defeated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the Nevada Democratic caucuses. Political experts say the clear win in Nevada was a

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(二)月

AS IT IS 2015-10-04 Drought Affecting Californias Sequoias 长期干旱影响加州的红杉 California continues to suffer under a historic drought. The state has received very little rainfallover the past four years. California is famous for its hu

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十)月

By Kari Barber Freetown 07 September 2007 Sierra Leone's election officials say all preparations have been completed and the country is set for the presidential runoffs Saturday. Vice President Solomon Berewa will face opposition candidate Ernest Kor

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

By Nico Colombant and Kari Barber Freetown, Sierra Leone 24 September 2007 Amputee war victims in Sierra Leone are hard at work preparing for the upcoming (November 8th to 18th) amputee football World Cup in Turkey. The sport started 30 years ago in

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

By Mike O'Sullivan Las Vegas 19 January 2008 Voters in the Western state of Nevada are taking part in party caucuses Saturday to help choose the nominees for U.S. president. Mike O'Sullivan has a preview from Las Vegas on the first-in-the-West presid

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(一月)

Economy is Key Concern for Nevada Voters President Obama hopes to carry Nevada. So does Mitt Romney. But experts say the state could swing either way. Nevada has been hit hard by home foreclosures, as many homeowners began defaulting on their mortgag

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The question - the question - that hangs over the investigation here in Vegas is, why? We still don't have a good answer to that, to what motivated Stephen Paddock. But we are slowly gaining insight into another key question.

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Forty-five years ago today, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment would have insured women have equal rights to men, but it was never adopted. It fell three states short of the 38 needed wi

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: When senators come back to Washington on Monday, a handful of Republicans will decide the fate of a bill that could reshape health care in America. Republicans have been promising for years to repeal and replace the Affordable Ca

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Not for 20 years has there been a Democratic governor in Nevada. It's an increasingly blue state in presidential elections. The governor's office has stayed red, but this year, Republicans face a challenge, as NPR's Leila Fadel r

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

By Naomi Schwarz Freetown 11 August 2007 In Sierra Leone, turnout is high for presidential and parliamentary elections. These are the first elections since peacekeepers left Sierra Leone after more than ten years of civil war. Some are saying the vot

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

By Naomi Schwarz Freetown 09 August 2007 In a densely populated, ramshackle neighborhood of Freetown, in Sierra Leone, Hariatu Turay is battling for a seat in parliament, one of only 64 women running out of more than 500 candidates. Naomi Schwarz vis

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

U.S. presidential contender Mitt Romney decisively won Republican Party caucuses in the western state of Nevada Saturday, confirming his lead in the race to choose his party's nominee for the presidential election in November. Former Speaker of the H

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 14 November 2007 Sierra Leone's recently elected president, Ernest Koroma, will be formally inaugurated on Thursday, with eight West African heads of state expected to be in attendance. Mr. Koroma has been in office since Septe

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)
学英语单词
adambulacralia
adjuvant grafting
admiralty bond
advoutress
alcannin
alkaloid test
alumni education
antilandfill
arbitrament
autocarpous
aythya fuligula
ballechins
Ban Thin
bicircular surface
big H
Blepharipa tibialis
block dimensions
bookplates
border-control
Bowness
box parts
building enclosure
clawings
closed chain mechanism
cndoes
co-exist
Compusec.
cruising chute
cuckoo egg
cut surface character
Decembrist
degenerate primer
despinning
devotary
distance between the toes of a weld
dryopsis kawakamii
eluation test
epiglottises
erythro-pentulose
escape symbol
fall into disfavour
fetialis
finit state automation
first ordertransition
full character printer
gang-operated
got it
grow operation
guaranteed print labeling
Heterondontidae
high-sr aragonite
Hybrid Market
hydraulic modeling
infinite alleles mutation model
intranasal antrcstomy
it's not over until the fat lady sings
Jacquet's biolrinetic treatment
Khālisākuri
machine-recognizable
Mackinac I.
make sb's blood curdle
make the best of both worlds.
metal hygiene clinics
mies
monotonous
mosquito-net
multiprocessing organization
neuclear explosion
Nyctemerinae
ohmsfords
oneside
organizational maintenance manual set
overrunning
peritoneal sheath
photoluminescence powder
physiognomists
pightles
pigment spot
primuliflora
real-time synchronization
reservoir sedimentation computation
robot tank
rub shoulders
sailor's knot
sanders pipe
scenic easement
septal papillary muscle
short-term lending
snotling
Soyaló
specific volume of coal-oil mixture
steam pressure
symmetric plane
tare gross
timothy berners-lee
touch dance
two-rows
unsettle
vealed
vedran
Verstraeten's bruit