"What chance had we?" rejoined Mrs. Ballinger. Roby monopolised her from the first. And THAT, I've no doubt, was her purpose--to give Osric Dane a false impression of her own standing in the Club. She would hesitate at nothing to attract attention: we all know how she took in poor Professor Foreland."英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
Spoke with a Frenchman who was taken, but released, by a Dutch man-of-war of thirty-six guns, (with seven more of the King's or greater ships), off the North Foreland, by Margett. Which is a strange attempt, that they should come to our teeth; but the wind being easterly, the wind that should bring our force from Portsmouth, will carry them away home.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
But one of our small barques named the Michael, whose captain was Master Kinderslie, the master, Bartholomew Bull, lost our company, insomuch that we could not obtain the sight of her many days after, of whom I mean to speak further anon, when occasion shall be ministered, and opportunity served. Thus we continued on our course until the 2nd of July, on which day we fell with the Queen's Foreland, where we saw so much ice, that we thought it impossible to get into the straits, yet at the last we gave the adventure, and entered the ice.英文原著 · 《Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage》
AI 补充例句(附中文翻译)
The army established a strong defensive position across the low-lying foreland.军队在低洼的前沿地建立了一个稳固的防御阵地。
A jagged foreland jutted out into the sea, battered by heavy waves.
They hiked across the grassy foreland to reach the edge of the cliffs.他们穿过长满青草的前沿地,到达了悬崖边。