Thames

(noun.) the longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea.

校对:劳伦斯

• At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen's boats were far more numerous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• You have no more nat'ral sense of duty than the bed of this here Thames river has of a pile, and similarly it must be knocked into you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Glaciers spread from the poles towards the equator, until England to the Thames was covered in ice. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In 1829 Brown also was the engineer for suspension bridges built over the Esk at Montrose and over the Thames at Hammersmith. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I wish it were in the bottom of the Thames, I do; and if Miss Pinkerton were there, I wouldn't pick her out, that I wouldn't. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I hurled it out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Bell's steamboat between Glasgow and Greenock in 1812 was followed by five others in 1814; and seven steamboats plied on the Thames in 1817. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A party of people flying from London, as was frequent in those days, had come up the Thames in a boat. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The banks of the Thames presented a new scene; they were flat, but fertile, and almost every town was marked by the remembrance of some story. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• This was first employed by the engineer Brunel in the construction of the Thames tunnel, which was begun in 1825 and opened as a thoroughfare in 1843. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I have thought it over again and again, said Herbert, and I think I know a better course than taking a Thames waterman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Marconi himself, at the House of Commons, telegraphed by wireless across the Thames, a distance of 250 yards. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The sailor went on, till he got to Shore Lane, leading into Lower Thames Street. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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