英语词汇“land”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

land¹

noun landlænd

1mass noun The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water.
陆地
the reptiles lay their eggs on land
爬行动物在陆地上产卵。
after four weeks at sea we sighted land
海上漂泊四星期后我们看见了陆地。
Example sentencesExamples
- Seismic waves are detected by instruments known as geophones when used on land or hydrophones in water.
- Equally at home in water or on land, the Newfoundland was large enough to pull in a drowning man or to break the ice to retrieve him.
- What allows the eel catfish to flourish there is its elongated body and ability to feed on both land and water.
- There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth.
- A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region.
- We're amphibians, living part of our lives in the water and part on land.
- Movements in water are slower than movements on land due to water resistance.
- For while adult amphibians usually live on land, their soft eggs must be laid in the water.
- The ecosystem, both on land and in the water, depends heavily upon the activity of bacteria.
- The guns can be fired from the vehicle on land or water, or can be dismounted and used in a normal fashion.
- After the wave comes the trough, where the sea level drops below normal and the water dumped on land pours back to the sea.
- As happy in the water as on land, this breed is a fearless swimmer, and is most useful for hunting wild fowl.
- Never dump oil in the water, on land or in the trash; fines can be in the thousands!
- The melting of sea ice and glaciers on land make surface waters fresher than they are now.
- If the mine came down on land instead of water, it was supposed to go off seventeen seconds later.
- The way solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's surface depends primarily on whether the surface is land or sea.
- It was May, and the island was a meeting place for breeding animals, both in the water and on land.
- Then imagine that you and your buddy are alone, with no sight of land, nor any surface cover!
- A car that can drive on land, sail on water and fly through the air will be unveiled next month.
- When the Earth is viewed from space on a cloudless day, all that can be seen are the edges of land, sea and icecaps.
- When he did, he noticed that the dam was built half on land and half on water.
Synonyms
terra firma, dry land, solid ground
coast, coastline, shore
1. 1.1as modifier Living or travelling on land rather than in water or the air.
  在陆地（或地面）生活（或旅行）
  a land force
  地面部队。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most sharks are simply not tuned in to eating land mammals.
  And then, as now, it was essentially a debate between maritime forces and land forces.
  The report says the amount of contaminants in land mammals such as musk ox and reindeer is still low.
  Why did we ever choose to become clumsy land beasts when water is our essence and feels so much like home?
  The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg.
  Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons.
  Their teeth, like those of most land mammals, still show differentiation into several types.
  After the war he specialised in tropical medicine and was consultant to the Far East land forces in Singapore.
  At the moment, silence is being maintained over both the arming of the land forces and the total cost of the military plans.
  In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded.
  He pointed out that whales share a number of traits with land mammals, such as milk and a placenta.
  The best clue we can give you is that these organisms are considered to be the closest living relatives of land plants.
  A further benefit is that the winter months see greater cloud cover, making it easier for allied land forces to operate unseen.
  As a part of the fleets and flotillas they operated with land forces to defend ports and installations.
  In 1700 both land and water transport were still extremely expensive in most parts of Europe.
  Yet the Pleistocene was also characterized by the presence of distinctive large land mammals and birds.
  The screened-in shelter on the lakeshore offered a view of both land and water birds.
  He went on to command the US land forces at D-Day and the subsequent US advance through France.
  The other important role for the Navy in Asia is to project land forces ashore.
  Every living land animal with a backbone is descended from the same group of fish.
2. 1.2 An area of ground, especially in terms of its ownership or use.
  土地，地产
  he bought 360 acres of land
  waste land
  荒地。
  measures to reduce logging on federal lands
  Example sentencesExamples
  Today the county council said it was not aware of a promise to return to clean up the land but would arrange to tidy up any land which was covered in rubbish.
  The landscape contains a mosaic of residential, agricultural, old field successional and forested lands.
  At times one could be forgiven for thinking that there would be no more land left to stake a mineral claim on.
  The aim is to restore waste land in the deprived area and create a community gardening scheme to attract jobs.
  On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts.
  It would be able to seize vehicles caught fly tipping and could prosecute anyone caught dropping litter on any piece of land or water.
  On a visit many years ago they chanced upon a man who declared he had the best plot of land on God's Earth, on the shores of Loch Melford.
  The drought has not helped matters as animals have abandoned their traditional grazing lands in search of greener pastures.
  How much is a prime parcel of Arctic land with a water view?
  In most islands some small-scale farmers continued to occupy prime lands, maintaining a cash-crop culture on the margins of plantations.
  Every year the action of the wind destroyed thousands of hectares of fertile lands, apt for cattle exploitation.
  They say that builders must be discouraged from building on green sites, rather than re-using land in the inner areas.
  Then on to the Fens - a land of fertile fields and canals and dykes with The Isle of Ely rising majestically from the heart of it all.
  Last year the archaeologists' project was making sure land to be covered by a cycleway did not include valuable remains.
  It concerned a man called Mr John White, who bought 586 hectares of farming land in Northland.
  After selling their farms in Southern California at profitable prices, many citrus growers began looking for new lands to farm.
  Arable land is one thing the Eastern Cape is not short of but development of much of this has been slow or non-existent.
  The fishponds there were generally small and sited on marginal lands unusable for agriculture.
  Any land over 5 hectares that is not urban land is also covered by the proposed regime.
  The world's cultivated lands have grown to an area about the size of South America.
  In this case a motorcyclist was injured in a collision at a junction where visibility was restricted by a bank of earth on land owned by British Rail.
  Synonyms
  grounds, ground, fields, open space, open area
  property, acres, acreage, estate, estate, lands, realty, real property, real estate, landholding, holding
  countryside
  unbuilt land, rural area, green area, green belt
  archaic demesne
  soil, earth, loam, sod, dirt, clay, turf, topsoil, humus, marl
3. 1.3the land Ground or soil used as a basis for agriculture.
  农田
  my family had worked the land for many years
  我家种田已有多年。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So did the early Indo Europeans till the land and possess wheeled vehicles?
  Savory also noted that too much rest was as bad for the land as too much grazing.
  While Betsy and Mack spoke of working the land, Leah and Ana talked of different things.
  Edna Beard fell in love with the countryside while working the land to feed a nation at war.
  But should we not remember who it was who broke the land and tilled the soil?
  Dung and bedding, along with all other crop residues, are returned to the land to replenish soil nutrients.
  She is a country person who believes in using the products of the land.
  German Mennonites settle the area, cultivate the land and build the infrastructure.
  In both cases, these local leaders play a key role in what happens on the land, including farm land.
  Synonyms
  the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land
4. 1.4the land Rural areas and the rural way of life.
  many people are leaving the land and going to work in the city
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the growth of population was in the towns, and labourers left the land for the cities.
  Those giving up farming often retain their attachment to the land by keeping their forestry as an investment.
  It's no coincidence that the majority of those born on the land in the past 20 years want nothing to do with it.
  The programme, Clarissa and the Countryman, paid homage to the land and its food producers.
  The Hebridean way of life is bound inextricably to the land.
  Lumbered with crippling debt, many farmers left the land, paving the way for the corporatization of agriculture.
  Raised in the rural ethos of Mayo, he grew up with an attachment to the land.
  For millions of poor peasants, it will mean being driven off the land by cheap agricultural imports.
  As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, tenant farmers were driven from the land.
  Synonyms
  the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land
5. 1.5South African count noun An area fenced off for cultivation; a field.
  〈南非〉围垦田地；田地
  Example sentencesExamples
  They will point out that even in the settlement people are starting to make their own gardens, while others are joining them in the untilled lands.
  He allegedly used state vehicles to take his children to school and also used state property and staff to build structures on his farm and plough his lands.
  There were no fences, no tractors, no pineapples, no building and cattle were trampling the lands; we have had to start from scratch.
  Synonyms
  area, site, development, complex, piece of land, region, tract
2A country or state.
国家
the valley is one of the most beautiful in the land
这山谷是该国最美丽的地方之一。
the lands of the Middle East
中东各国。
Example sentencesExamples
- During her teens, Samerjan was introduced to unusual fabrics from exotic lands by her father, a successful textile manufacturer.
- To think of the dads, grandads and brothers who fought in the war to protect our land from Nazis to then see them emerging behind a political party.
- Naturally air conditioned by windtowers which catch the breezes then funnel them below, the Souk is a great marketplace in which to examine products from countless lands.
- It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation.
- We made a lot of wonderful friends, saw some beautiful countryside in lands far away, and experienced some incredible receptions along the way.
- To understand this answer we must study the philosophy of the history of the world, especially in reference to political geography - the various lands and countries.
- You won't find a better dance ensemble this side of that imaginary line that separates the US from the wild and beautiful lands and music to its south.
- Publishers would have to take account of the law of every land on Earth.
- The reasons for his sudden emergence as a real power in the land were essentially political.
- The first series proved unmissable with six weeks of first class original music from some of the best bands in the land.
- Every time one sells or buys a product made from the abuse of others in the so-called Third World nations or their lands makes them guilty of immoral gains.
- You might be under the impression that, for such a beautiful land, they've been blessed with a truly ugly language.
- Sailors traveling to exotic foreign lands began to collect tattoos as souvenirs of their journeys.
- Although women could work in slums or in the back country of foreign lands, national suffrage would surely permanently soil them.
- After establishing himself as an artist in his native land, he decided to immigrate to the United States.
- Philip Gailey ends his article with a wish for a country he regards as ‘one of the most beautiful and hospitable lands on the planet’.
- Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
- As he travelled across the land evangelizing at revival meetings he took the lads with him.
- They are fleeing from the dire economic and social circumstances in their own lands to countries that offer them a better future.
- After all, it's America that is the young country, the republic, the land of informality and classlessness.
Synonyms
country, nation, state, nation state, fatherland, motherland, homeland, realm, kingdom, empire, republic, commonwealth, province, territory, district, region, area, domain
1. 2.1in combination A particular sphere of activity or group of people.
  活动圈；特定领域人群
  the blunt, charmless climate of techno-land
  技术领域生硬而无吸引力的环境。
2. 2.2 A conceptual area.
  you're living in a fantasy land
  你生活在幻想的国度里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have already begun to fall back into my fantasy land, my mind's safe haven.
  She should have been out eating lunch with Barnes at Goldman's, not in some fantasy land.
  Too bad that the producers of that series decided to revisit the land of adult insecurities with a whole new cast of characters.
  My ears cannot stand the sound, especially when my mind is still in that ever so far away land of dreams.
  But he said anyone who suggested the port would have a cloud of dust hovering over it was in fantasy land.
  For her the book fair is just a free ticket to fantasy land - one they cannot ignore.
  This is a land of fantasy, adventure and discovery, a place where those dreams become reality.
  Once a person reaches this level of isolation, it is hard to come back to the land of sanity.
  In using them, we work outside the realm of right and wrong, and within the land of cause and effect.
  She was one of those girls who lives in this fantasy land where absolutely nothing is ever their fault.
  Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too.
  Who but one transported by fame into fantasy land could think it?
  I think I must live in some kind of crazed fantasy land, when I have absolutely NO self awareness whatsoever.
  Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two.
  Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches.
3The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
（枪炮）阳膛线
Example sentencesExamples
- The rotating band contacts the lands and grooves at the forcing cone.
- The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle.
- What is radical about the Briley design is that it is rifled with six, straight, equally spaced lands and grooves.
- It's about 43 inches long, with a 24-inch barrel with one twist and five lands and grooves.
- Since it uses a reverse electroplating process, there's no abrasive action from bore scouring brushes and no possibility of scratching the lands and grooves.

verb landlænd

1with object Put (someone or something) on land from a boat.
he landed his troops at Hastings
他率部队在黑斯廷斯登陆。
Example sentencesExamples
- Over the years we have bought lobsters, prawns, crabs and scallops on the shore outside the house, direct from the boats that landed them.
- All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there.
- The rescued mariners were landed at Culdrose, where they were checked by the medical team and given a good breakfast and a chance to rest.
- The ship's medical officer stitched a number of John's lacerations before the ship landed him at Key West the following day.
- It is cheek by jowl with the small boats that land the fish, and a stone's throw from the market where it is auctioned.
- Boats were refused permission by the Department to land their catches at Dingle.
- It reminded me that Virginia used to impose a fine of 100 pounds on ship's captains landing Quakers in the colony.
- Military materiel is landed via a bow ramp and also via assault boats through the doors of the flooded well.
- Sailors and supplies were landed during the night while heavy gunfire was concentrated on the Royalists.
- Instead of the expected peaceful handover, the Captains of the ships signalled attack, landed their troops and began an all-out assault.
- The survivor was treated for the effects of drinking seawater, and landed ashore, where he went on to make a full recovery.
- The King and Queen scallops are landed by local boats which fish the Irish sea.
- The more I think about it, the more unlikely it is that these girls are landed by boat.
- One boat that regularly lands the deep-sea species at Scrabster in Caithness is the Amadeus.
- Then there were the marine corps and army infantry who waded ashore or were landed by air on island after island.
- When the operation settled down, the boats landed some excellent catches at New Plymouth.
- Many of the boats have been landing their fish in Killybegs.
- Your boat will land you at the point where the river meets the sea and from then on you walk.
- The work will allow boats and barges to land cargo in bad weather because the planned site is sheltered by the reef.
- When his condition was stable, he was landed at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.
- The rescued fishermen were transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Valentia Island but luckily none of the men were injured.
- Free French officers were landed by air and boat to negotiate the port's peaceful transfer, but they received a hostile response as did an advance landing party.
- It is illegal to dump any waste material at sea and all vessels will have to log and land their waste on returning from sea.
- The nuclear boat then made visits to affiliates on the islands of Islay and Jura, where some of the crew were landed to tour a few of the most famous whisky distilleries in the world.
1. 1.1no object Go ashore; disembark.
  上岸；登陆；下船
  the marines landed at a small jetty
  陆战队在一个小渔码头登陆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thirty-four thousand troops landed that day, but at a high cost, for over 2,500 became casualties.
  Imagine you land in a port somewhere and want to go into town for groceries and sight seeing.
  Japan was a Buddhist country when in 1543 Portuguese missionaries landed on Kyushu Island in Southern Japan.
  The largest group landed in 1893 when four hundred camels and ninety-four men disembarked.
  From there we stopped at the tiny islands of Providencia and San Andres, finally landing in the rain forests of Panama.
  As a combat correspondent in World War IL, he landed with the marines at Guam and Iwo Jima.
  No lives were lost and all landed safely ashore.
  On May 3 right wing paramilitaries had landed by boat in Bojaya.
  When the British explorer Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia for Britain.
  When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy.
  In 1942 he was evacuated shortly before Singapore fell to the Japanese; his ship was torpedoed and he spent three weeks in an open lifeboat before landing in Java.
  It's a bay in south-western Cuba, in which US marines landed in 1898 during the Cuban War of Independence.
  Christopher Columbus landed in Honduras on his last voyage in 1502.
  Captain James Cook also landed at La France Australe on Christmas Eve 1776.
  Synonyms
  disembark, reach the shore, go ashore, debark, alight, get off
  arrive
2. 1.2 Bring (a fish) to land with a net or rod.
  （尤指用网或钩）把（鱼）弄上岸
  he landed 43 on Saturday
  Example sentencesExamples
  I look forward to meeting many of you next year and hopefully landing a few more fish!
  Meanwhile, I have had to stay at home and go bass fishing, trying to land all of the large bass that are currently around.
  Pat Gannon landed his first Salmon of the season, a nice 10.5 lb fish at the Gannon fishery.
  As soon as a fish is tired and ready to be landed the guide will ask you for one so he can loop it through the gills and tie it to a convenient branch while it recovers.
  International golfer Mark O'Meara was one of those to land a summer salmon, when he hooked and landed an 11 lb fish on the 5th.
  Dewar won the accolade of top rod overall after clinching first place in all four sessions and Jones landed the biggest fish, a grayling of 42 cm.
  And, if you dip a fishing rod into any one of their famous fish farms, you're likely to land a very fat salmon or char.
  I tightened into a fish and soon landed a nice brown trout of about 14 inches.
  This method proved a success in landing another 16 fish for Roy - an excellent day's sport.
  No salmon were reported from the river, but like the Bunowen, fish should be running here too and if more anglers were out, we should see some fish landed.
  There followed a long reminiscence of his lost love, and how she had landed this and that fish of blessed memory.
  My best mate and fishing partner Simon Crow went out for a week and landed 20 fish up to 48 lb in size.
  It wasn't long before Lee landed his first pike weighing in at 9lb 11 oz and was also chuffed with himself.
  The top prize went to Christy Tobin all the way from Limerick while P.J. Brogan from Ballina landed the biggest fish of the day.
  Tipperary man Frank Acheson had an early success on Tuesday the 3rd, when he landed a 12.5lbs fish on the spinner.
  Some very good fish have been landed in the past week, with more being hooked and lost.
  Grant Gibson from Newton St Boswells took the honours after landing an incredible 17 fish from the Melrose stretch.
  As we approached the anglers, they hooked and landed an immature striped bass.
  John McDonagh landed a 3 lb fish at Durkan's Pool and several others were hooked and lost.
  Neil Yates landed the heaviest fish of the day - an 8lb 15 oz carp.
  Synonyms
  catch, capture, take captive, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, bag, hook
3. 1.3informal Succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of competition.
  〈非正式〉（尤指在激烈竞争中）取得，赢得
  she landed the starring role in a new film
  她在新电影中获得主演角色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And as we go to break, a concert scene from the movie that made Bette Midler a star and landed her first Oscar nomination.
  But Miami, as they soon will be called, landed their largest sports star since Shaq this winter.
  After that he landed a more central role in The Italian Job opposite Edward Norton, Charlize Theron and rap superstar Marky Mark.
  The Hyde Park Hotel may have been where Marco landed his third Michelin star but Harvey's was where he made his name.
  Kilmaine boxers landed three Connacht titles at the recent provincial championships in Westport.
  It was amazing to see who landed the roles, and even more surprising who caught on with audiences.
  He didn't look like someone who had landed the plum job in Brussels.
  Luke was a hero in his own social circles for landing such a key role in a series of movies.
  Dermot Weld's feat in landing a second Melbourne Cup is a remarkable achievement.
  Then in October 2001, de Cartier landed the position of creative director at a prestigious music publishing company.
  He and many others landed jobs on in-shore mackerel boats, fishing tamer waters around the Isle of Skye and Plymouth.
  Other signings have disappointed but McCormack excelled himself in the close season by landing St George star Darren Treacy.
  He blindsided the competition by landing Wolfgang Reitzle to run the Premier Auto Group.
  And a break of 76 in the final frame ensured that the Leeds player landed the £82, 500 first prize.
  John Thaw, who died from cancer this week at the age of 60, landed his first paid role on a stall at Smithfield Market as a teenager.
  Using only what God gave me, I landed my first major role in ‘Jesus, Mary and Joeseph!’
  Returning home he landed a job writing about the new music for The Spectator.
  But the Bradford light-middle is not complaining after landing a fight on the Dale Robinson undercard in London on Friday.
  He has come very close to landing several other major roles recently.
  The Chargers also landed wide receiver/kick returner Tim Dwight as part of their deal with the Falcons.
  It was in 1997 that Chris won his first major prize in an open competition by landing the President's Cup and the awards have come thick and fast since then.
  Synonyms
  obtain, get, acquire, procure, secure, be appointed to, gain, net, win, earn, achieve, attain, bag, come by, draw, pick up
  carry off, catch, capture, grab, hook
  informal get/lay one's hands on, get hold of, get one's mitts on, score, swing, nab, collar, pull down
  British informal blag
2no object Come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface.
（从空中）降落，着陆
we will shortly be landing at Gatwick
a fly landed on Tom's nose
Example sentencesExamples
- The presidential helicopter, Marine One, is now landing on the South Lawn at the White House.
- I heard the rumbling of an engine and scraping of wheels as a plane landed on the runway, and I shifted.
- Just before the last passenger flight touches down, two more Concordes will also land at the west London airport.
- Almost four hours later, the green light came on in the helicopter's cabin, signaling that the Marine teams would be landing in three minutes.
- Despite the dust storm, it landed on the surface and for a few tantalising moments started transmitting the first view from the Martian surface.
- Before noon, the plane landed on a single runway near town.
- He said police in a helicopter landed on their farm shortly before 5am with a search warrant.
- In 1997 the Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the surface of Mars in the mouth of one of the channels.
- That was what you saw as the helicopters landed at this Marine air base, which is about 65 miles south of the capital.
- It said the rocket was fired shortly after sunset and landed on a farm land nearly 300 meters short of the embassy building.
- On 24 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon.
- We landed, disembarked and entered the terminal building, a dank shell of gnawed concrete.
- A large, black raven glided down and landed on the ground a few feet away.
- It's going to be fitted with wheels and it will still be doing around 40 to 50 mph when it lands on the runway.
- We flew on a turboprop military plane and landed on the carrier.
- The plane, carrying members of the band and their touring staff, overshot after landing in severe weather conditions on arrival from Buffalo, New York.
- For more than 40 years, the Moon has been visited by automated space probes and by nine manned expeditions, six of which landed on its surface.
- Likewise, aircraft should require some level of permission from the Department of Conservation before landing in marine reserve areas.
- It is expected to return to Earth and land in the Australian Outback in June 2007.
- I'd been to The Bronx only once before, and had exactly the same sensation then, so that by the time you alight you might as well be landing on the moon.
Synonyms
touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive
perch, settle, come down, come to rest, alight
bring down, make a landing, put down, take down
1. 2.1with object Bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way.
  使（飞机，航天器）降落
  the co-pilot landed the plane
  副飞行员使飞机降落。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The pilots tried to land the aircraft on a nearby clearing but could not as there were other firefighters standing on the site.
  Each one was part of a lunar landing mission during which two American astronauts landed a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.
  My copilot and I knew we had plenty of power to land the aircraft with the remaining two engines.
  We'll bring you the live pictures as soon as the pilot gets ready to land that aircraft.
  With enemy cavalry approaching, LT McNamara landed his own aircraft under heavy fire.
  The purpose of the session was to educate ground crews on the proper procedure for landing a helicopter.
  They'll then have their photo taken after they've landed the plane they hijacked.
  The fourth time he landed the aircraft, he crashed it.
  Even though you have landed the aircraft, there are a lot of things to be done before you can start patting yourself and your crew on the back.
  Although another pilot took off and landed the aircraft, Mr Henshaw flew it over the Cambridgeshire countryside using its dual controls.
  The crew landed the aircraft without further incident.
  So those who managed to eject or safely land their aircraft could live to fight another day.
  In there, you have to pay close attention to how you simulate landing a Soyuz spacecraft.
  A Skipton pilot was commended by the Royal Air Force for successfully landing a burning aircraft at Portsmouth airport.
  Need to land a light aircraft in a hurry but can't find a convenient runway?
  Being able to land an airplane when the engine has quit is a skill that can save your bacon.
  In the early '80s, Ray Dolan landed fighter planes on aircraft carriers.
  The aircraft was immediately landed thereafter and the airframe was inspected.
  We also flew to Crete and bombed the Maleme airfield which was being used to land the German aeroplanes.
  Mr Hughes had just landed the helicopter in a field.
  But a local resident has complained to the council about Mr Kearney's use of his home for taking off and landing his helicopter.
  Synonyms
  touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive
2. 2.2 Reach the ground after falling or jumping.
  （跌倒或起跳后）着地，落地
  he leapt over the fence and landed nimbly on his feet
  他跳过栅栏敏捷地着地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I smirked and jumped down, landing on the path behind them.
  As the chopper got closer to the ground, the person standing jumped off, landing in the sand.
  She fell backwards, landing with a sickening thud, and didn't move.
  I connected shoulders with someone and I landed on the ground.
  He let go of her and jumped back, landing on a rooftop.
  Leeds Crown Court heard in the process he suddenly dropped some nine metres, landing on his feet, but fell backwards and struck his head.
  He landed on the ground a few meters away and rolled over several times before he came to a dead halt.
  In a single movement, she slipped out of the saddle and landed on the ground.
  He fell through the doctor's arms, landing on his feet and eventually on his bottom.
  How badly your child may be injured depends on how far she fell and the surface she landed on.
  She opened the hatch and jumped in, Alec landing right behind her.
  The lack of tread on the soles saw me fly into the air and nearly land face first on the treadmill.
  Without another word the siblings jumped, landing in a pile of hay.
  I tripped over myself as I exited the car and landed on the ground.
  She dropped her cigarette into a puddle and slid off of the bonnet of my car, landing with a splash on the gravel.
  Before he could reach it, Jason stumbled on a raised section of the ground and landed on his forearms, struggling to regain his footing.
  Brian went toppling over, landing with a splash in the pool.
  A workman who slipped and fell 30 ft off a house roof had an incredible escape when he landed with a splash - in a children's paddling pool.
  The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement.
  As Peter saw Marc disappear into the blackness, he felt a dreadful sense of foreboding, hearing the splash when Marc landed.
  Wearing only a pair of red socks, he slipped when his feet touched down and he landed hard on his back.
3. 2.3with adverbial of place (of an object) come to rest after falling or being thrown.
  （东西掉下或扔出后）落下不动
  the plate landed in her lap
  盘子落在她的大腿上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without looking up he threw a book that landed with a thud on the table in front of Evelyn.
  A stone from the top of the wall broke free, triggering a small landslide of pebbles, and landed with a resounding splash in the stream below.
  He then grabbed my flashlight and threw it so it landed right by my purse.
  Suddenly this giant brick landed in front of us then we turned around and there was one behind us.
  Fortunately, at that moment a drop from a high-up stalactite landed in the waiting pool beneath, making a loud splash as it landed.
  Ice falling off the trees outside, landing on the ground with a thud that makes me jump out of my seat.
  I watched helplessly as a small splash of milk issued from the jug and landed in the bowl.
  She flipped a pancake from the hot plate expertly and it landed neatly on her plate of four.
  A rope came snaking out over the river, landing with a splash at my feet.
  I felt a drop of water land on the tip of my nose with a plop, mingling with the dirty sweat already on my face.
  I dropped my fork on the glass plate and it landed with a small ‘clank’.
  Dara tossed her shoes on the floor and the rest of her belongings landed on the sofa.
  You'd need to create a diversion, by throwing a rock that lands behind them, making a noise and distracting them temporarily.
  So it should come as no surprise that, five minutes into lunch, a giant tangle of grilled onions landed right in my lap.
  I was vigorously taking down notes when a paper ball landed next to me.
  And just what did the people at the next table say when a dislodged piece of fish landed among their crockery?
  Forty-four gallon drums of chemicals shot more than a hundred metres high, landing up to 400 metres away.
  Some landed in the deep fat fryer, splashing oil everywhere.
  One of the side panels fell off, landing softly on the sandy ground.
4. 2.4informal (of something undesirable or unexpected) arrive suddenly.
  〈非正式〉（令人不快或意想不到的事）突然出现
  there were more problems than ever landing on her desk
  本周似乎有比以往更多的问题突然出现在她的办公桌上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As application forms for the new fund began landing on desks last week, the reaction from church conservation workers was one of dismay.
  Being the managing partner means that all the unsolved and ad hoc problems land on my desk.
  Through bursts of laughter he told me that the first extracts of the new biography about Jack have finally been landing on editors' desks.
  Do you strictly say no or if the right television product were to land on your desk, would you do sitcoms again?
  The Cultural Commission's report will land on the desks of the Scottish arts world on Thursday morning.
  How would you react if the support you need suddenly landed in your lap?
  The fight of the new millennium between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis has landed in the lap of South African promoter Joe Manyathi.
  As the language of personal development lands on their business laps, managers learn the sequence of emotions and reactions associated with change.
  The report will land on the desk of the Ulster Secretary and the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
  It's the idea of things rushing up on you suddenly, landing on you like an avalanche, hearing a distant rumble and then suddenly finding yourself surrounded by emotion.
  As I'd been scrambling to create one, a fresh opportunity landed in my lap.
  We're assuming you're not going to have perjured yourself, Richard, so we'll expect to hear your resignation landing on a desk soon, shall we?
  The opportunity to do that film landed in my lap.
  Still, I had hopes that something would change, or the next job would land in my lap as they had done so far.
  So, after five months of doing something I really wanted in football and a top job now landing in my lap, it wasn't to be.
  Will he have much influence on the bill that lands on his desk?
  After we pointed out the many health-giving qualities of the brown stuff, a press release lands on our desk confirming that it is good for you.
  You know podcasting is a mainstream concept when it lands in the laps of 14-year-olds.
  The red ink, the comments, and the occasional C minuses: who can erase the dreaded memories of marked school work landing on the desk?
3land someone withinformal with object Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)
〈非正式〉使处于（困难、讨厌境地）
his exploits always landed him in trouble
他的大胆行动总是使他陷入麻烦。
Example sentencesExamples
- This eventually leads to a complete breakdown that lands Jimmy in the hospital.
- But it's difficult to argue when traffic jams are landing us in a pickle every day.
- He landed himself in hot water during a recent party after jokingly asking a woman for sex.
- She does not think before she opens her mouth and lands him in even more trouble.
- She is not one to huddle up and go into a corner and that has landed her in these difficulties.
- Their actions land them in one situation after another that manages to be contrived and clichéd at the same time.
- Emily Bell thinks the BBC may even have landed itself in hot water over its handling of the matter.
- Federal officials cited the speech as an ‘overt act’ seeking the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, landing him in prison for three years.
- An accident lands Maya in a coma in the hospital, and Tamar postpones her trip until her ex wakes up.
- It is less about the theatre production and more about the actors, their history and how it landed them in this current situation.
- She told the court on Tuesday he had no idea why his father had been arrested but knew the goods could land him in more trouble.
- Bowen is the latest in a line of old-style comedians to have landed themselves in hot water after using racially provocative language or jokes.
- Mr Brookes is well aware that his refusal to pay his income tax demand could land him in very hot water.
- A bloody confrontation lands Shaw in jail for over a decade and decimates his family.
- You do feel sorry for him because from all accounts he is a really decent and caring bloke and not at all a big head, but keeps landing himself in hot water.
- A good right-left combination from Lewis lands Tyson in all sorts of trouble.
- Hyper-sensitive, he seems continually to be examining himself and putting himself in situations which are apt to land him in trouble.
- This ambivalence toward their own goals in life can land them in difficult situations.
- That lands you in a really difficult scientific problem.
- He landed himself in hot water with the club's fans last summer during a pre-season tour when he let his frustration get the better of him and made a gesture towards the crowd.
Synonyms
bring, lead, drive, cause to be in, cause to arrive in
1. 3.1land someone with Inflict (an unwelcome task or difficult situation) on someone.
  给某人带来（不愉快的任务，困境）
  the mistake landed the company with a massive bill
  这一差错让公司背负巨额账单。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He also landed her with a bill for nearly £1, 000 after ringing chat-lines on her mobile phone.
  A businessman has been left in a stew after a computer glitch landed him with 250,000 tins of lentil soup.
  But what has their over-investment landed them with, other than big debts?
  To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation.
  It is like a savings scheme but it means that the owners of the properties aren't landed with a large bill.
  Experts landed us with a police force which is now so warped in its outlook of its responsibilities that it's no longer a force but a service.
  Good Friday became bad Friday for one group of Chessington residents when they were landed with £320 in parking fines.
  Craig was viciously beaten by a violent customer in January, which landed him with a fractured skull, both cheekbones broken and a scar near one eye.
  Smith has been landed with ‘extortionate’ water bills - because travellers are taking water from his supply.
  A week in hospital in France will land you with a bill for 2000.
  The stunt was one of 10 things Liam said he'd always wanted to do but it landed him with a life ban.
  Inevitably this has landed Kirkland with the unwanted reputation of being injury prone.
  He has had his problems with drinking and, more importantly, getting caught, which landed him an international ban.
  Surprisingly, Chris discovers her true self during the survival course but lands Charles with a black eye in the process.
  Now my stupidity had landed me with more bruises.
  It is an absurdly high level of fines and costs he has been landed with.
  Dickinson left the field with a nasty head wound which could land Hagan with a hefty ban if he is found guilty.
  His tip-off to police landed Bailey with a five-year jail sentence when he appeared at York Crown Court.
  The Evening Press has learned that his history of impersonation and con tricks has landed him with prison sentences before.
  Frustration at the loss of a telephone charger landed a man with a £700 bill for damage to a car.
  Synonyms
  burden, saddle, encumber, trouble, tax, load
  informal dump something on someone
  British informal lumber
4informal with object Inflict (a blow) on someone.
〈非正式〉殴打
I won the fight without landing a single punch
我一拳都没打中就赢了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Tyson was bleeding from cuts over both his eyes and from his nose when Lewis landed a punch that sent him sprawling on his back in Lewis' corner.
- He parried all of the soldier's blows and then landed one of his own, on the soldier's armored stomach.
- He threw the next punch at Joey's gut, catching Joey off guard and landing another punch at Joey's face.
- In round 1, Donis landed a hard right hook that was his most significant punch of the round.
- Ali got off his toes for the first time in the fight and landed his most meaningful punches.
- Raymond, enraged at being laughed at, charged forward and tried landing the first strike.
- He screamed, landing a powerful blow directly into the man's stomach.
- Over time, he lost a split-second, just enough to make him less capable of pulling away from blows or landing one of his tremendous counterpunches that come out of nowhere.
- Magee, who entered the contest unbeaten in 22 fights, began confidently, landing the more telling blows.
- Down but not out, she gives as good as she gets, and manages to land a few punches before the soldier gets away.
- Pursing his lips, he landed a heavy right hook on the boy's jaw before he could dodge, sending his head snapping back forcefully.
- The two fighters from the boxing crazy Eastern Cape began dishing heavy leather from the onset but Marali landed the most telling blows.
- Jimmy's making the fight but Foster's landing the more effective blows.
- She'd landed another few blows when he caught her wrist and twisted.
- Rocky was the aggressor throughout the fight and landed all the punishing blows, but the judges announced Wallace as the winner.
- They brawled near the ropes and Hopkins landed a sneaky left hook to Oscar's liver.
- He landed a few successful blows before he was roughly pulled back by two sets of strong arms.
- He suddenly realized Red meant them when he landed a solid left hook to his abdomen.
- He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
- It is possible that when the fight statistics are scrutinised that Arias, the Brazilian heavyweight champion, will have a tally of punches landed in single figures.
Synonyms
inflict, deal, deliver, administer, deposit, dispense, give, catch, mete out
informal fetch

Phrases

how the land lies

What the situation is.
事情处于某种状态
let's keep it to ourselves until we see how the land lies
我们看清事态之前先对此事保密。
Example sentencesExamples
- Let's see how the land lies after Grafton Street opens, OK?
- You know what you're doing here, you know how the land lies.
- Your response counts, because it tells them, and the BBC how the land lies.
- He's had a hand in one long-standing magazine and one that went under, so he seemed like the perfect person to show me how the land lies in the magazine world.
- Just to see how the land lies, I approached Dave Linley, who has been given the job of looking after the spare tickets.
Synonyms
the facts, the details, the particulars, the picture, how things stand, the lie of the land, how the land lies, the case

in the land of the living

humorous Alive or awake.
〈幽默〉活着，醒着
the doctor was amazed to find me still in the land of the living
if the general's in the land of the living, I'd like a word
Example sentencesExamples
- As I write these words, it is unclear whether he is still in the land of the living.
- Two cans of Red Bull and a cigarette later I'm back in the land of the living only to hear Norah Jones' silky croon spewing from my speakers.
- As long as my friend was firmly in the land of the living, I took her existence for granted.
- Well, I'm back in the land of the living again with an internet connection!
- Am now back in the land of the living, only to be faced with ten bazillion emails and two letters from the House of Commons (that'll be my MP then).
- They cut him down, chucked water over his face to revive him and make sure he was still in the land of the living.
- She tilted his face to look at her to check for signs of life, finding thankfully that the lad was indeed still in the land of the living.
- There's nothing like an appalling film to put you back in the land of the living.
- She and Kevin were in the land of the living, and it was so very good to feel the rumble of life again.
- In that instance, as it is now, it was very comforting to know that I was wrong and he had been slyly enjoying his years in the land of the living.
Synonyms
living, live, having life, not dead

the land of the free

The United States of America.
自由之邦（指美国）
in the land of the free virtually anyone is free to wield a gun
Example sentencesExamples
- He wouldn't stop talking about his first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty from the ship that brought him to the land of the free as a teenage immigrant.
- The arguments did not go down all that well in a nation whose people are still profoundly convinced that America remains the land of the free.
- It seems that, in the land of the free, teens must not be subjected to full-on satire.
- After all, it's the land of the free and the home of the abstinence vow, where many teenagers pledge to be celibate until marriage.
- He became a major in the French army and following the defeat of France he sailed for America, the land of the free.
- And while over-consumption is hardly new in the land of the free, marketers are increasingly targeting children.
- Yes, I just moved back from London to the land of the free.
- I have always looked up to America as the land of the free and the home of the brave and my heart is aching for you all right now.
- I'm in the land of the free, and I won't be blogging.
- Outside the land of the free, America's IT suppliers are admired more than America's political values.

the land of Nod

humorous A state of sleep.
〈幽默〉睡眠状，梦乡
the tape is guaranteed to send babies and toddlers to the land of Nod
Example sentencesExamples
- I fought off the sleep interruption and went back to the land of Nod.
- Now researchers are finding that the land of Nod may be especially difficult to reach for women.
- May dreams of the fearless left-winger escort you to the land of Nod.
- I want to stay where it is safe, lost in the sleepy, dreamy land of Nod.
- The elements that will transport some viewers into raptures will no doubt merely send others into the land of Nod, but it is well worth surrendering to the film's hypnotic spell.
- I left, drank my hot chocolate and so to bed with disappointed musings as I drifted off to the land of Nod.
Synonyms
sleep, slumber, land of nod

land (or fall) on one's feet

Have good luck or success.
走运，成功
after some ups and downs he has finally landed on his feet
经过一些曲折，他最终成功了。
Example sentencesExamples
- For starters he left me after I'd supported him for six months of him being unemployed, just as I lost my job and he landed on his feet.
- Here's hoping that he and Gretchen and everyone at the show land on their feet - the airwaves will be a lot poorer without them.
- But I think, you know, he's got a lot of good years left, and he'll land on his feet.
- She's very talented and she's definitely going to land on her feet.
- But no, miss high and mighty, you've landed on your feet and you don't need your old dad any more, that's for sure.
- He said his son was a lucky person who always landed on his feet.
- Within weeks of her arrival she landed on her feet, securing a job with West Midlands as a bus conductor.
- Ranieri has landed on his feet, loved and lauded in two cities.
- I really fell on my feet: I replied to a flat-share advert and landed myself a double bedroom complete with en-suite bathroom for a very reasonable sum.
- Luckily for Ollie, and Man City, he has loyal supporters, and somehow always manages to land on his feet.

live off the land

Live on whatever food one can obtain by hunting, gathering, or subsistence farming.
靠山吃山，靠水吃水
George used the fieldcraft taught to him by his father to live off the land
Example sentencesExamples
- For countless generations, our people lived off the land.
- At one time Native people were more or less self-sufficient, living off the land - trapping, fishing, hunting, logging - or working for the railway company in various departments.
- The soldiers learn how to catch food and live off the land.
- During the early 1850s he repeatedly crossed over the mountains and disappeared for months at a time, exploring and living off the land.
- Enroute, Gen. Sherman's troops were cut off from other Union forces and lived off the land.
- In the century that followed, the Dutch established settlements and devised means to live off the land.
- Often relocated to disadvantaged areas, the Ojibwa faced poverty and bare subsistence through living off the land and/or farming.
- They have been living off the land there ever since, joined by a slow but steady stream of family and friends whose faces now look out from the pictures dotted around the display.
- Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers.
- Richard and Sarah moved to Tuscany planning to grow their own vegetables and live off the land, hoping to harvest olives to make olive oil.

the lie of the land

1The features or characteristics of an area.
a night patrol about to scout out the lie of the land
1. 1.1The current situation.
  she was beginning to see the lie of the land with her in-laws

Phrasal Verbs

land up

Reach a place or situation.
到达
the ship landed up on the south coast of Devon
船到达德文郡南岸。
I landed up in prison
我进了监狱。
Example sentencesExamples
- Follow these precautions for the first few dates with anyone and you'll never land up in a sticky situation!
- The plot is all about the problems faced by an Indian youngster, Indrajeeth, who lands up in New York by accident.
- I landed up at San Francisco around noon local time and then was led to the serpentine queue where visitors to the promised land (the modern one) were lined up.
- He writes and strives for reforms in society and at one point, lands up in jail.
- They lost everything, including several houses, and ended up homeless for a while before landing up in the flat.
- So - the expelled gang members became the criminal kings of the countries they landed up in.
- What if the wind changes, and you land up somewhere that leaves you feeling unprepared?
- Somehow the bill always lands up on the rate-payers' doormats!
- Two months ago I landed up in a counselling centre in East London where I met Ash who was to be my future counsellor.
- The fight got uglier when her husband and friend reached the spot and they all landed up at the police station.
Synonyms
finish up, arrive, find oneself, end up, turn up, come, go, appear

land up with

End up with (an unwelcome situation)
以（某种不利情况）告终
I landed up with three broken ribs
结果我折断了三根肋骨。
Example sentencesExamples
- In my many years of experience as a beautician I have seen that many young girls land up with a bad skin mostly because they are ignorant of the basic care required.
- It's a vote for a smoother, wittier, more stylish world than the one we've landed up with: the chink of glass against glass and the devastating couplet.
- So it is not necessary to give antibiotics, every time the child lands up with a cough, cold or wheezing.
- However, the debts that I shall run up with at uni are likely to be huge - the average student in 2003 is (calculated by the government) going to land up with a £15,000 debt.
- His ex-wife told Scotland on Sunday: ‘He landed up with a criminal conviction for assault.’
- Out of five pitches, however, we land up with one new client.
- Padding down the lighted street, Ria kicked an empty beer can and wondered how everyone else got such good lives and she landed up with such a rubbish family.
- If we are trying to ape the west, what we will land up with is a whole lot of emotional wrecks.
- Which genes we land up with and how they interact with our pre- and post natal environments is a lottery.
- Just as in a car, if we put the wrong fuel into our bodies, we land up with problems.
- Conversely, the much maligned Campbell clambered off the bench and repeated the exercise to ensure RMI landed up with a goalless stalemate for the first time in the league this season.
- The merged firm will land up with two overlapping product sets that are difficult to integrate and a client set that will be unwilling to migrate.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch land and German Land.

Celtic words such as Irish lann ‘enclosure’ and Welsh llan ‘enclosure, church’ are related to land, as well as the closer Dutch land and German Land. In the land of the living is now a jokey way of saying that someone is alive or awake. The expression is biblical, occurring for example in the Book of Job: ‘Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.’ The land of Nod is also biblical, first used for the state of sleep by Jonathan Swift, who based it on the place name Nod in Genesis: ‘And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden’. Landscape (late 16th century) was first used as a term for a picture of natural scenery: it comes from Middle Dutch lantscap, from land ‘land’ and -scap (the equivalent of the English suffix -ship).

Rhymes

and, band, bland, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand, righthand, Samarkand, sand, stand, strand, thirdhand, underhand, undermanned, understand, unplanned, untanned, withstand

Land²

nounPlural Länder lantlandlänt

A state of Germany or Austria.
Example sentencesExamples
- A second school highlights the distinctive role of regional governments in federal systems, however designated - states, provinces, republics, cantons, Länder.
- We have been in contact with every Land in Germany to ensure continuity of teacher recruitment and to foster exchanges and school links.
- These hopes were fuelled by reports from the Länder regarding a significant lowering in the number of crimes involving right-wing violence.
- Many countries - e.g. the USA and Germany - have federal constitutions with considerable powers exercised by states or Länder.
- Kohl insisted that these extensions would undermine the position of the German Länder.
- In 1991 the new Länder accounted for 20 per cent of reunified Germany's combined labour force but less than 7 per cent of its combined GNP.
- Since then, the country has consisted of 16 Länder or states, each of which has wide powers over its domestic affairs.
- The 16 Länder (federal states) aim to check whether individual schools have fulfilled their tasks as set down in the education standards.
- This offered the respective Länder governments the possibility of exerting the leading influence, but usually the main opposition party was able to ensure some influence for itself.
- This has happened in the post-communist Länder (federal states) of eastern Germany.
- The German Länder have, as it were, an organic claim to authority, and have represented their local communities for much longer.

Origin

German, literally 'land'.

land¹

nounlændland

1The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water, as opposed to the sea or the air.
陆地
the reptiles lay their eggs on land
爬行动物在陆地上产卵。
after four weeks at sea we sighted land
海上漂泊四星期后我们看见了陆地。
Example sentencesExamples
- When the Earth is viewed from space on a cloudless day, all that can be seen are the edges of land, sea and icecaps.
- The ecosystem, both on land and in the water, depends heavily upon the activity of bacteria.
- Never dump oil in the water, on land or in the trash; fines can be in the thousands!
- The guns can be fired from the vehicle on land or water, or can be dismounted and used in a normal fashion.
- As happy in the water as on land, this breed is a fearless swimmer, and is most useful for hunting wild fowl.
- If the mine came down on land instead of water, it was supposed to go off seventeen seconds later.
- Movements in water are slower than movements on land due to water resistance.
- What allows the eel catfish to flourish there is its elongated body and ability to feed on both land and water.
- The melting of sea ice and glaciers on land make surface waters fresher than they are now.
- Equally at home in water or on land, the Newfoundland was large enough to pull in a drowning man or to break the ice to retrieve him.
- Then imagine that you and your buddy are alone, with no sight of land, nor any surface cover!
- A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region.
- We're amphibians, living part of our lives in the water and part on land.
- There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth.
- When he did, he noticed that the dam was built half on land and half on water.
- After the wave comes the trough, where the sea level drops below normal and the water dumped on land pours back to the sea.
- A car that can drive on land, sail on water and fly through the air will be unveiled next month.
- It was May, and the island was a meeting place for breeding animals, both in the water and on land.
- The way solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's surface depends primarily on whether the surface is land or sea.
- Seismic waves are detected by instruments known as geophones when used on land or hydrophones in water.
- For while adult amphibians usually live on land, their soft eggs must be laid in the water.
Synonyms
terra firma, dry land, solid ground
1. 1.1as modifier Living or traveling on land rather than in water or the air.
  在陆地（或地面）生活（或旅行）
  a land mammal
  Example sentencesExamples
  The screened-in shelter on the lakeshore offered a view of both land and water birds.
  And then, as now, it was essentially a debate between maritime forces and land forces.
  Yet the Pleistocene was also characterized by the presence of distinctive large land mammals and birds.
  Every living land animal with a backbone is descended from the same group of fish.
  He pointed out that whales share a number of traits with land mammals, such as milk and a placenta.
  He went on to command the US land forces at D-Day and the subsequent US advance through France.
  Most sharks are simply not tuned in to eating land mammals.
  The best clue we can give you is that these organisms are considered to be the closest living relatives of land plants.
  Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons.
  A further benefit is that the winter months see greater cloud cover, making it easier for allied land forces to operate unseen.
  As a part of the fleets and flotillas they operated with land forces to defend ports and installations.
  The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg.
  In 1700 both land and water transport were still extremely expensive in most parts of Europe.
  At the moment, silence is being maintained over both the arming of the land forces and the total cost of the military plans.
  Their teeth, like those of most land mammals, still show differentiation into several types.
  The report says the amount of contaminants in land mammals such as musk ox and reindeer is still low.
  In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded.
  Why did we ever choose to become clumsy land beasts when water is our essence and feels so much like home?
  After the war he specialised in tropical medicine and was consultant to the Far East land forces in Singapore.
  The other important role for the Navy in Asia is to project land forces ashore.
2. 1.2 An expanse of land; an area of ground, especially in terms of its ownership or use.
  土地，地产
  the land north of the village
  村北的土地。
  the Indians were wiped out as gold prospectors invaded their lands
  随着探金者侵入他们的土地，印第安人被灭绝了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  How much is a prime parcel of Arctic land with a water view?
  In most islands some small-scale farmers continued to occupy prime lands, maintaining a cash-crop culture on the margins of plantations.
  After selling their farms in Southern California at profitable prices, many citrus growers began looking for new lands to farm.
  Then on to the Fens - a land of fertile fields and canals and dykes with The Isle of Ely rising majestically from the heart of it all.
  Today the county council said it was not aware of a promise to return to clean up the land but would arrange to tidy up any land which was covered in rubbish.
  They say that builders must be discouraged from building on green sites, rather than re-using land in the inner areas.
  Arable land is one thing the Eastern Cape is not short of but development of much of this has been slow or non-existent.
  The world's cultivated lands have grown to an area about the size of South America.
  The fishponds there were generally small and sited on marginal lands unusable for agriculture.
  Last year the archaeologists' project was making sure land to be covered by a cycleway did not include valuable remains.
  Any land over 5 hectares that is not urban land is also covered by the proposed regime.
  It would be able to seize vehicles caught fly tipping and could prosecute anyone caught dropping litter on any piece of land or water.
  On a visit many years ago they chanced upon a man who declared he had the best plot of land on God's Earth, on the shores of Loch Melford.
  On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts.
  The aim is to restore waste land in the deprived area and create a community gardening scheme to attract jobs.
  Every year the action of the wind destroyed thousands of hectares of fertile lands, apt for cattle exploitation.
  At times one could be forgiven for thinking that there would be no more land left to stake a mineral claim on.
  It concerned a man called Mr John White, who bought 586 hectares of farming land in Northland.
  In this case a motorcyclist was injured in a collision at a junction where visibility was restricted by a bank of earth on land owned by British Rail.
  The drought has not helped matters as animals have abandoned their traditional grazing lands in search of greener pastures.
  The landscape contains a mosaic of residential, agricultural, old field successional and forested lands.
  Synonyms
  grounds, ground, fields, open space, open area
  soil, earth, loam, sod, dirt, clay, turf, topsoil, humus, marl
3. 1.3the land Ground or soil used as a basis for agriculture.
  农田
  my family had worked the land for many years
  我家种田已有多年。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She is a country person who believes in using the products of the land.
  Dung and bedding, along with all other crop residues, are returned to the land to replenish soil nutrients.
  In both cases, these local leaders play a key role in what happens on the land, including farm land.
  German Mennonites settle the area, cultivate the land and build the infrastructure.
  While Betsy and Mack spoke of working the land, Leah and Ana talked of different things.
  But should we not remember who it was who broke the land and tilled the soil?
  Savory also noted that too much rest was as bad for the land as too much grazing.
  So did the early Indo Europeans till the land and possess wheeled vehicles?
  Edna Beard fell in love with the countryside while working the land to feed a nation at war.
  Synonyms
  the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land
2A country.
国家
the valley is one of the most beautiful in the land
这山谷是该国最美丽的地方之一。
the lands of the Middle East
中东各国。
America, the land of political equality
美国，政治平等之国。
Example sentencesExamples
- Publishers would have to take account of the law of every land on Earth.
- Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
- To understand this answer we must study the philosophy of the history of the world, especially in reference to political geography - the various lands and countries.
- They are fleeing from the dire economic and social circumstances in their own lands to countries that offer them a better future.
- The first series proved unmissable with six weeks of first class original music from some of the best bands in the land.
- Every time one sells or buys a product made from the abuse of others in the so-called Third World nations or their lands makes them guilty of immoral gains.
- We made a lot of wonderful friends, saw some beautiful countryside in lands far away, and experienced some incredible receptions along the way.
- Although women could work in slums or in the back country of foreign lands, national suffrage would surely permanently soil them.
- As he travelled across the land evangelizing at revival meetings he took the lads with him.
- You might be under the impression that, for such a beautiful land, they've been blessed with a truly ugly language.
- It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation.
- During her teens, Samerjan was introduced to unusual fabrics from exotic lands by her father, a successful textile manufacturer.
- You won't find a better dance ensemble this side of that imaginary line that separates the US from the wild and beautiful lands and music to its south.
- After establishing himself as an artist in his native land, he decided to immigrate to the United States.
- Sailors traveling to exotic foreign lands began to collect tattoos as souvenirs of their journeys.
- After all, it's America that is the young country, the republic, the land of informality and classlessness.
- Naturally air conditioned by windtowers which catch the breezes then funnel them below, the Souk is a great marketplace in which to examine products from countless lands.
- To think of the dads, grandads and brothers who fought in the war to protect our land from Nazis to then see them emerging behind a political party.
- The reasons for his sudden emergence as a real power in the land were essentially political.
- Philip Gailey ends his article with a wish for a country he regards as ‘one of the most beautiful and hospitable lands on the planet’.
Synonyms
country, nation, state, nation state, fatherland, motherland, homeland, realm, kingdom, empire, republic, commonwealth, province, territory, district, region, area, domain
1. 2.1 A conceptual realm or domain.
  〈喻〉范围，领域
  you are living in a fantasy land
  你生活在幻想的国度里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I think I must live in some kind of crazed fantasy land, when I have absolutely NO self awareness whatsoever.
  Too bad that the producers of that series decided to revisit the land of adult insecurities with a whole new cast of characters.
  Who but one transported by fame into fantasy land could think it?
  Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches.
  I have already begun to fall back into my fantasy land, my mind's safe haven.
  This is a land of fantasy, adventure and discovery, a place where those dreams become reality.
  For her the book fair is just a free ticket to fantasy land - one they cannot ignore.
  In using them, we work outside the realm of right and wrong, and within the land of cause and effect.
  My ears cannot stand the sound, especially when my mind is still in that ever so far away land of dreams.
  Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too.
  But he said anyone who suggested the port would have a cloud of dust hovering over it was in fantasy land.
  Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two.
  She should have been out eating lunch with Barnes at Goldman's, not in some fantasy land.
  She was one of those girls who lives in this fantasy land where absolutely nothing is ever their fault.
  Once a person reaches this level of isolation, it is hard to come back to the land of sanity.
3The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
（枪炮）阳膛线
Example sentencesExamples
- It's about 43 inches long, with a 24-inch barrel with one twist and five lands and grooves.
- The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle.
- The rotating band contacts the lands and grooves at the forcing cone.
- Since it uses a reverse electroplating process, there's no abrasive action from bore scouring brushes and no possibility of scratching the lands and grooves.
- What is radical about the Briley design is that it is rifled with six, straight, equally spaced lands and grooves.

verblændland

1with object Put (someone or something) on land from a boat.
the lifeboat landed the survivors safely ashore
Example sentencesExamples
- When his condition was stable, he was landed at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.
- When the operation settled down, the boats landed some excellent catches at New Plymouth.
- The King and Queen scallops are landed by local boats which fish the Irish sea.
- Boats were refused permission by the Department to land their catches at Dingle.
- Many of the boats have been landing their fish in Killybegs.
- Instead of the expected peaceful handover, the Captains of the ships signalled attack, landed their troops and began an all-out assault.
- The rescued fishermen were transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Valentia Island but luckily none of the men were injured.
- Then there were the marine corps and army infantry who waded ashore or were landed by air on island after island.
- It is cheek by jowl with the small boats that land the fish, and a stone's throw from the market where it is auctioned.
- Your boat will land you at the point where the river meets the sea and from then on you walk.
- It is illegal to dump any waste material at sea and all vessels will have to log and land their waste on returning from sea.
- The more I think about it, the more unlikely it is that these girls are landed by boat.
- The rescued mariners were landed at Culdrose, where they were checked by the medical team and given a good breakfast and a chance to rest.
- All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there.
- The nuclear boat then made visits to affiliates on the islands of Islay and Jura, where some of the crew were landed to tour a few of the most famous whisky distilleries in the world.
- Sailors and supplies were landed during the night while heavy gunfire was concentrated on the Royalists.
- The ship's medical officer stitched a number of John's lacerations before the ship landed him at Key West the following day.
- The survivor was treated for the effects of drinking seawater, and landed ashore, where he went on to make a full recovery.
- One boat that regularly lands the deep-sea species at Scrabster in Caithness is the Amadeus.
- It reminded me that Virginia used to impose a fine of 100 pounds on ship's captains landing Quakers in the colony.
- Free French officers were landed by air and boat to negotiate the port's peaceful transfer, but they received a hostile response as did an advance landing party.
- Over the years we have bought lobsters, prawns, crabs and scallops on the shore outside the house, direct from the boats that landed them.
- Military materiel is landed via a bow ramp and also via assault boats through the doors of the flooded well.
- The work will allow boats and barges to land cargo in bad weather because the planned site is sheltered by the reef.
1. 1.1no object Go ashore; disembark.
  上岸；登陆；下船
  the marines landed at a small fishing jetty
  陆战队在一个小渔码头登陆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Christopher Columbus landed in Honduras on his last voyage in 1502.
  In 1942 he was evacuated shortly before Singapore fell to the Japanese; his ship was torpedoed and he spent three weeks in an open lifeboat before landing in Java.
  As a combat correspondent in World War IL, he landed with the marines at Guam and Iwo Jima.
  When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy.
  No lives were lost and all landed safely ashore.
  From there we stopped at the tiny islands of Providencia and San Andres, finally landing in the rain forests of Panama.
  Captain James Cook also landed at La France Australe on Christmas Eve 1776.
  Japan was a Buddhist country when in 1543 Portuguese missionaries landed on Kyushu Island in Southern Japan.
  Thirty-four thousand troops landed that day, but at a high cost, for over 2,500 became casualties.
  It's a bay in south-western Cuba, in which US marines landed in 1898 during the Cuban War of Independence.
  When the British explorer Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia for Britain.
  On May 3 right wing paramilitaries had landed by boat in Bojaya.
  The largest group landed in 1893 when four hundred camels and ninety-four men disembarked.
  Imagine you land in a port somewhere and want to go into town for groceries and sight seeing.
  Synonyms
  disembark, reach the shore, go ashore, debark, alight, get off
2. 1.2 Bring (a fish) to land, especially with a net or hook.
  （尤指用网或钩）把（鱼）弄上岸
  I landed a scrappy three-pound walleye
  Example sentencesExamples
  Meanwhile, I have had to stay at home and go bass fishing, trying to land all of the large bass that are currently around.
  And, if you dip a fishing rod into any one of their famous fish farms, you're likely to land a very fat salmon or char.
  International golfer Mark O'Meara was one of those to land a summer salmon, when he hooked and landed an 11 lb fish on the 5th.
  My best mate and fishing partner Simon Crow went out for a week and landed 20 fish up to 48 lb in size.
  Some very good fish have been landed in the past week, with more being hooked and lost.
  It wasn't long before Lee landed his first pike weighing in at 9lb 11 oz and was also chuffed with himself.
  Grant Gibson from Newton St Boswells took the honours after landing an incredible 17 fish from the Melrose stretch.
  Neil Yates landed the heaviest fish of the day - an 8lb 15 oz carp.
  There followed a long reminiscence of his lost love, and how she had landed this and that fish of blessed memory.
  I look forward to meeting many of you next year and hopefully landing a few more fish!
  No salmon were reported from the river, but like the Bunowen, fish should be running here too and if more anglers were out, we should see some fish landed.
  Pat Gannon landed his first Salmon of the season, a nice 10.5 lb fish at the Gannon fishery.
  The top prize went to Christy Tobin all the way from Limerick while P.J. Brogan from Ballina landed the biggest fish of the day.
  Tipperary man Frank Acheson had an early success on Tuesday the 3rd, when he landed a 12.5lbs fish on the spinner.
  Dewar won the accolade of top rod overall after clinching first place in all four sessions and Jones landed the biggest fish, a grayling of 42 cm.
  I tightened into a fish and soon landed a nice brown trout of about 14 inches.
  As soon as a fish is tired and ready to be landed the guide will ask you for one so he can loop it through the gills and tie it to a convenient branch while it recovers.
  As we approached the anglers, they hooked and landed an immature striped bass.
  John McDonagh landed a 3 lb fish at Durkan's Pool and several others were hooked and lost.
  This method proved a success in landing another 16 fish for Roy - an excellent day's sport.
  Synonyms
  catch, capture, take captive, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, bag, hook
3. 1.3informal Succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of strong competition.
  〈非正式〉（尤指在激烈竞争中）取得，赢得
  she landed the starring role in a new film
  她在新电影中获得主演角色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Kilmaine boxers landed three Connacht titles at the recent provincial championships in Westport.
  It was amazing to see who landed the roles, and even more surprising who caught on with audiences.
  Luke was a hero in his own social circles for landing such a key role in a series of movies.
  Then in October 2001, de Cartier landed the position of creative director at a prestigious music publishing company.
  He has come very close to landing several other major roles recently.
  Other signings have disappointed but McCormack excelled himself in the close season by landing St George star Darren Treacy.
  He didn't look like someone who had landed the plum job in Brussels.
  Using only what God gave me, I landed my first major role in ‘Jesus, Mary and Joeseph!’
  The Hyde Park Hotel may have been where Marco landed his third Michelin star but Harvey's was where he made his name.
  And as we go to break, a concert scene from the movie that made Bette Midler a star and landed her first Oscar nomination.
  But Miami, as they soon will be called, landed their largest sports star since Shaq this winter.
  Returning home he landed a job writing about the new music for The Spectator.
  The Chargers also landed wide receiver/kick returner Tim Dwight as part of their deal with the Falcons.
  After that he landed a more central role in The Italian Job opposite Edward Norton, Charlize Theron and rap superstar Marky Mark.
  And a break of 76 in the final frame ensured that the Leeds player landed the £82, 500 first prize.
  It was in 1997 that Chris won his first major prize in an open competition by landing the President's Cup and the awards have come thick and fast since then.
  John Thaw, who died from cancer this week at the age of 60, landed his first paid role on a stall at Smithfield Market as a teenager.
  He and many others landed jobs on in-shore mackerel boats, fishing tamer waters around the Isle of Skye and Plymouth.
  He blindsided the competition by landing Wolfgang Reitzle to run the Premier Auto Group.
  But the Bradford light-middle is not complaining after landing a fight on the Dale Robinson undercard in London on Friday.
  Dermot Weld's feat in landing a second Melbourne Cup is a remarkable achievement.
  Synonyms
  obtain, get, acquire, procure, secure, be appointed to, gain, net, win, earn, achieve, attain, bag, come by, draw, pick up
2no object Come down through the air and alight on the ground.
（从空中）降落，着陆
planes landing at the rate of two a minute
Example sentencesExamples
- He said police in a helicopter landed on their farm shortly before 5am with a search warrant.
- Before noon, the plane landed on a single runway near town.
- In 1997 the Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the surface of Mars in the mouth of one of the channels.
- I heard the rumbling of an engine and scraping of wheels as a plane landed on the runway, and I shifted.
- A large, black raven glided down and landed on the ground a few feet away.
- It's going to be fitted with wheels and it will still be doing around 40 to 50 mph when it lands on the runway.
- I'd been to The Bronx only once before, and had exactly the same sensation then, so that by the time you alight you might as well be landing on the moon.
- That was what you saw as the helicopters landed at this Marine air base, which is about 65 miles south of the capital.
- Despite the dust storm, it landed on the surface and for a few tantalising moments started transmitting the first view from the Martian surface.
- Almost four hours later, the green light came on in the helicopter's cabin, signaling that the Marine teams would be landing in three minutes.
- The plane, carrying members of the band and their touring staff, overshot after landing in severe weather conditions on arrival from Buffalo, New York.
- We landed, disembarked and entered the terminal building, a dank shell of gnawed concrete.
- Likewise, aircraft should require some level of permission from the Department of Conservation before landing in marine reserve areas.
- We flew on a turboprop military plane and landed on the carrier.
- The presidential helicopter, Marine One, is now landing on the South Lawn at the White House.
- It said the rocket was fired shortly after sunset and landed on a farm land nearly 300 meters short of the embassy building.
- On 24 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon.
- Just before the last passenger flight touches down, two more Concordes will also land at the west London airport.
- It is expected to return to Earth and land in the Australian Outback in June 2007.
- For more than 40 years, the Moon has been visited by automated space probes and by nine manned expeditions, six of which landed on its surface.
Synonyms
touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive
perch, settle, come down, come to rest, alight
bring down, make a landing, put down, take down
1. 2.1with object Bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way.
  使（飞机，航天器）降落
  the copilot landed the plane
  副飞行员使飞机降落。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But a local resident has complained to the council about Mr Kearney's use of his home for taking off and landing his helicopter.
  The purpose of the session was to educate ground crews on the proper procedure for landing a helicopter.
  Need to land a light aircraft in a hurry but can't find a convenient runway?
  The crew landed the aircraft without further incident.
  In the early '80s, Ray Dolan landed fighter planes on aircraft carriers.
  A Skipton pilot was commended by the Royal Air Force for successfully landing a burning aircraft at Portsmouth airport.
  So those who managed to eject or safely land their aircraft could live to fight another day.
  Being able to land an airplane when the engine has quit is a skill that can save your bacon.
  Although another pilot took off and landed the aircraft, Mr Henshaw flew it over the Cambridgeshire countryside using its dual controls.
  With enemy cavalry approaching, LT McNamara landed his own aircraft under heavy fire.
  In there, you have to pay close attention to how you simulate landing a Soyuz spacecraft.
  They'll then have their photo taken after they've landed the plane they hijacked.
  The fourth time he landed the aircraft, he crashed it.
  We'll bring you the live pictures as soon as the pilot gets ready to land that aircraft.
  My copilot and I knew we had plenty of power to land the aircraft with the remaining two engines.
  Each one was part of a lunar landing mission during which two American astronauts landed a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.
  We also flew to Crete and bombed the Maleme airfield which was being used to land the German aeroplanes.
  Mr Hughes had just landed the helicopter in a field.
  Even though you have landed the aircraft, there are a lot of things to be done before you can start patting yourself and your crew on the back.
  The aircraft was immediately landed thereafter and the airframe was inspected.
  The pilots tried to land the aircraft on a nearby clearing but could not as there were other firefighters standing on the site.
  Synonyms
  touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive
2. 2.2 Reach the ground after falling or jumping.
  （跌倒或起跳后）着地，落地
  he leaped over the fence and landed nimbly on his feet
  他跳过栅栏敏捷地着地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement.
  As the chopper got closer to the ground, the person standing jumped off, landing in the sand.
  He landed on the ground a few meters away and rolled over several times before he came to a dead halt.
  Brian went toppling over, landing with a splash in the pool.
  I smirked and jumped down, landing on the path behind them.
  Leeds Crown Court heard in the process he suddenly dropped some nine metres, landing on his feet, but fell backwards and struck his head.
  She dropped her cigarette into a puddle and slid off of the bonnet of my car, landing with a splash on the gravel.
  I tripped over myself as I exited the car and landed on the ground.
  Before he could reach it, Jason stumbled on a raised section of the ground and landed on his forearms, struggling to regain his footing.
  I connected shoulders with someone and I landed on the ground.
  Without another word the siblings jumped, landing in a pile of hay.
  A workman who slipped and fell 30 ft off a house roof had an incredible escape when he landed with a splash - in a children's paddling pool.
  He fell through the doctor's arms, landing on his feet and eventually on his bottom.
  She fell backwards, landing with a sickening thud, and didn't move.
  He let go of her and jumped back, landing on a rooftop.
  The lack of tread on the soles saw me fly into the air and nearly land face first on the treadmill.
  She opened the hatch and jumped in, Alec landing right behind her.
  In a single movement, she slipped out of the saddle and landed on the ground.
  As Peter saw Marc disappear into the blackness, he felt a dreadful sense of foreboding, hearing the splash when Marc landed.
  How badly your child may be injured depends on how far she fell and the surface she landed on.
  Wearing only a pair of red socks, he slipped when his feet touched down and he landed hard on his back.
3. 2.3with adverbial of place (of an object) come to rest after falling or being thrown.
  （东西掉下或扔出后）落下不动
  the plate landed in her lap
  盘子落在她的大腿上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without looking up he threw a book that landed with a thud on the table in front of Evelyn.
  You'd need to create a diversion, by throwing a rock that lands behind them, making a noise and distracting them temporarily.
  I dropped my fork on the glass plate and it landed with a small ‘clank’.
  Forty-four gallon drums of chemicals shot more than a hundred metres high, landing up to 400 metres away.
  Fortunately, at that moment a drop from a high-up stalactite landed in the waiting pool beneath, making a loud splash as it landed.
  Suddenly this giant brick landed in front of us then we turned around and there was one behind us.
  She flipped a pancake from the hot plate expertly and it landed neatly on her plate of four.
  Some landed in the deep fat fryer, splashing oil everywhere.
  So it should come as no surprise that, five minutes into lunch, a giant tangle of grilled onions landed right in my lap.
  A rope came snaking out over the river, landing with a splash at my feet.
  He then grabbed my flashlight and threw it so it landed right by my purse.
  One of the side panels fell off, landing softly on the sandy ground.
  And just what did the people at the next table say when a dislodged piece of fish landed among their crockery?
  I was vigorously taking down notes when a paper ball landed next to me.
  Dara tossed her shoes on the floor and the rest of her belongings landed on the sofa.
  Ice falling off the trees outside, landing on the ground with a thud that makes me jump out of my seat.
  I felt a drop of water land on the tip of my nose with a plop, mingling with the dirty sweat already on my face.
  A stone from the top of the wall broke free, triggering a small landslide of pebbles, and landed with a resounding splash in the stream below.
  I watched helplessly as a small splash of milk issued from the jug and landed in the bowl.
4. 2.4informal (of something unpleasant or unexpected) arrive suddenly.
  〈非正式〉（令人不快或意想不到的事）突然出现
  there seemed to be more problems than ever landing on her desk this week
  本周似乎有比以往更多的问题突然出现在她的办公桌上。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We're assuming you're not going to have perjured yourself, Richard, so we'll expect to hear your resignation landing on a desk soon, shall we?
  So, after five months of doing something I really wanted in football and a top job now landing in my lap, it wasn't to be.
  Will he have much influence on the bill that lands on his desk?
  Do you strictly say no or if the right television product were to land on your desk, would you do sitcoms again?
  The report will land on the desk of the Ulster Secretary and the Prime Minister on Wednesday.
  After we pointed out the many health-giving qualities of the brown stuff, a press release lands on our desk confirming that it is good for you.
  How would you react if the support you need suddenly landed in your lap?
  The red ink, the comments, and the occasional C minuses: who can erase the dreaded memories of marked school work landing on the desk?
  Being the managing partner means that all the unsolved and ad hoc problems land on my desk.
  The Cultural Commission's report will land on the desks of the Scottish arts world on Thursday morning.
  The opportunity to do that film landed in my lap.
  As the language of personal development lands on their business laps, managers learn the sequence of emotions and reactions associated with change.
  The fight of the new millennium between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis has landed in the lap of South African promoter Joe Manyathi.
  As application forms for the new fund began landing on desks last week, the reaction from church conservation workers was one of dismay.
  Through bursts of laughter he told me that the first extracts of the new biography about Jack have finally been landing on editors' desks.
  It's the idea of things rushing up on you suddenly, landing on you like an avalanche, hearing a distant rumble and then suddenly finding yourself surrounded by emotion.
  Still, I had hopes that something would change, or the next job would land in my lap as they had done so far.
  You know podcasting is a mainstream concept when it lands in the laps of 14-year-olds.
  As I'd been scrambling to create one, a fresh opportunity landed in my lap.
3land someone withinformal with object Cause someone to be in (a difficult or unwelcome situation)
〈非正式〉使处于（困难、讨厌境地）
his exploits always landed him in trouble
他的大胆行动总是使他陷入麻烦。
Example sentencesExamples
- This ambivalence toward their own goals in life can land them in difficult situations.
- Emily Bell thinks the BBC may even have landed itself in hot water over its handling of the matter.
- It is less about the theatre production and more about the actors, their history and how it landed them in this current situation.
- She does not think before she opens her mouth and lands him in even more trouble.
- That lands you in a really difficult scientific problem.
- You do feel sorry for him because from all accounts he is a really decent and caring bloke and not at all a big head, but keeps landing himself in hot water.
- A bloody confrontation lands Shaw in jail for over a decade and decimates his family.
- But it's difficult to argue when traffic jams are landing us in a pickle every day.
- He landed himself in hot water with the club's fans last summer during a pre-season tour when he let his frustration get the better of him and made a gesture towards the crowd.
- This eventually leads to a complete breakdown that lands Jimmy in the hospital.
- She is not one to huddle up and go into a corner and that has landed her in these difficulties.
- Bowen is the latest in a line of old-style comedians to have landed themselves in hot water after using racially provocative language or jokes.
- Mr Brookes is well aware that his refusal to pay his income tax demand could land him in very hot water.
- She told the court on Tuesday he had no idea why his father had been arrested but knew the goods could land him in more trouble.
- He landed himself in hot water during a recent party after jokingly asking a woman for sex.
- Hyper-sensitive, he seems continually to be examining himself and putting himself in situations which are apt to land him in trouble.
- Federal officials cited the speech as an ‘overt act’ seeking the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, landing him in prison for three years.
- An accident lands Maya in a coma in the hospital, and Tamar postpones her trip until her ex wakes up.
- A good right-left combination from Lewis lands Tyson in all sorts of trouble.
- Their actions land them in one situation after another that manages to be contrived and clichéd at the same time.
Synonyms
bring, lead, drive, cause to be in, cause to arrive in
1. 3.1land someone with Inflict (an unwelcome task or difficult situation) on someone.
  给某人带来（不愉快的任务，困境）
  the mistake landed the company with a massive bill
  这一差错让公司背负巨额账单。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is like a savings scheme but it means that the owners of the properties aren't landed with a large bill.
  But what has their over-investment landed them with, other than big debts?
  Dickinson left the field with a nasty head wound which could land Hagan with a hefty ban if he is found guilty.
  Inevitably this has landed Kirkland with the unwanted reputation of being injury prone.
  Good Friday became bad Friday for one group of Chessington residents when they were landed with £320 in parking fines.
  Surprisingly, Chris discovers her true self during the survival course but lands Charles with a black eye in the process.
  He also landed her with a bill for nearly £1, 000 after ringing chat-lines on her mobile phone.
  His tip-off to police landed Bailey with a five-year jail sentence when he appeared at York Crown Court.
  The Evening Press has learned that his history of impersonation and con tricks has landed him with prison sentences before.
  The stunt was one of 10 things Liam said he'd always wanted to do but it landed him with a life ban.
  Experts landed us with a police force which is now so warped in its outlook of its responsibilities that it's no longer a force but a service.
  A businessman has been left in a stew after a computer glitch landed him with 250,000 tins of lentil soup.
  Now my stupidity had landed me with more bruises.
  He has had his problems with drinking and, more importantly, getting caught, which landed him an international ban.
  Frustration at the loss of a telephone charger landed a man with a £700 bill for damage to a car.
  It is an absurdly high level of fines and costs he has been landed with.
  Craig was viciously beaten by a violent customer in January, which landed him with a fractured skull, both cheekbones broken and a scar near one eye.
  A week in hospital in France will land you with a bill for 2000.
  To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation.
  Smith has been landed with ‘extortionate’ water bills - because travellers are taking water from his supply.
  Synonyms
  burden, saddle, encumber, trouble, tax, load
4informal with object Inflict (a blow) on someone.
〈非正式〉殴打
I won the fight without landing a single punch
我一拳都没打中就赢了。
with two objects I landed him one
Example sentencesExamples
- Jimmy's making the fight but Foster's landing the more effective blows.
- He screamed, landing a powerful blow directly into the man's stomach.
- She'd landed another few blows when he caught her wrist and twisted.
- Down but not out, she gives as good as she gets, and manages to land a few punches before the soldier gets away.
- Magee, who entered the contest unbeaten in 22 fights, began confidently, landing the more telling blows.
- He threw the next punch at Joey's gut, catching Joey off guard and landing another punch at Joey's face.
- He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
- Rocky was the aggressor throughout the fight and landed all the punishing blows, but the judges announced Wallace as the winner.
- In round 1, Donis landed a hard right hook that was his most significant punch of the round.
- They brawled near the ropes and Hopkins landed a sneaky left hook to Oscar's liver.
- It is possible that when the fight statistics are scrutinised that Arias, the Brazilian heavyweight champion, will have a tally of punches landed in single figures.
- He suddenly realized Red meant them when he landed a solid left hook to his abdomen.
- Pursing his lips, he landed a heavy right hook on the boy's jaw before he could dodge, sending his head snapping back forcefully.
- Over time, he lost a split-second, just enough to make him less capable of pulling away from blows or landing one of his tremendous counterpunches that come out of nowhere.
- He parried all of the soldier's blows and then landed one of his own, on the soldier's armored stomach.
- He landed a few successful blows before he was roughly pulled back by two sets of strong arms.
- The two fighters from the boxing crazy Eastern Cape began dishing heavy leather from the onset but Marali landed the most telling blows.
- Tyson was bleeding from cuts over both his eyes and from his nose when Lewis landed a punch that sent him sprawling on his back in Lewis' corner.
- Ali got off his toes for the first time in the fight and landed his most meaningful punches.
- Raymond, enraged at being laughed at, charged forward and tried landing the first strike.
Synonyms
inflict, deal, deliver, administer, deposit, dispense, give, catch, mete out

Phrases

how the land lies

What the state of affairs is.
事情处于某种状态
let's keep it to ourselves until we see how the land lies
我们看清事态之前先对此事保密。
Example sentencesExamples
- He's had a hand in one long-standing magazine and one that went under, so he seemed like the perfect person to show me how the land lies in the magazine world.
- Let's see how the land lies after Grafton Street opens, OK?
- Your response counts, because it tells them, and the BBC how the land lies.
- You know what you're doing here, you know how the land lies.
- Just to see how the land lies, I approached Dave Linley, who has been given the job of looking after the spare tickets.
Synonyms
the facts, the details, the particulars, the picture, how things stand, the lie of the land, how the land lies, the case

in the land of the living

humorous Alive or awake.
〈幽默〉活着，醒着
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, I'm back in the land of the living again with an internet connection!
- Two cans of Red Bull and a cigarette later I'm back in the land of the living only to hear Norah Jones' silky croon spewing from my speakers.
- There's nothing like an appalling film to put you back in the land of the living.
- In that instance, as it is now, it was very comforting to know that I was wrong and he had been slyly enjoying his years in the land of the living.
- They cut him down, chucked water over his face to revive him and make sure he was still in the land of the living.
- She tilted his face to look at her to check for signs of life, finding thankfully that the lad was indeed still in the land of the living.
- Am now back in the land of the living, only to be faced with ten bazillion emails and two letters from the House of Commons (that'll be my MP then).
- She and Kevin were in the land of the living, and it was so very good to feel the rumble of life again.
- As long as my friend was firmly in the land of the living, I took her existence for granted.
- As I write these words, it is unclear whether he is still in the land of the living.
Synonyms
living, live, having life, not dead

the land of Nod

humorous A state of sleep.
〈幽默〉睡眠状，梦乡
Example sentencesExamples
- Now researchers are finding that the land of Nod may be especially difficult to reach for women.
- I fought off the sleep interruption and went back to the land of Nod.
- I left, drank my hot chocolate and so to bed with disappointed musings as I drifted off to the land of Nod.
- The elements that will transport some viewers into raptures will no doubt merely send others into the land of Nod, but it is well worth surrendering to the film's hypnotic spell.
- May dreams of the fearless left-winger escort you to the land of Nod.
- I want to stay where it is safe, lost in the sleepy, dreamy land of Nod.
Synonyms
sleep, slumber, land of nod

land (or fall) on one's feet

Have good luck or success, especially after risk or trial.
after some ups and downs he has finally landed on his feet
经过一些曲折，他最终成功了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Ranieri has landed on his feet, loved and lauded in two cities.
- He said his son was a lucky person who always landed on his feet.
- Luckily for Ollie, and Man City, he has loyal supporters, and somehow always manages to land on his feet.
- But no, miss high and mighty, you've landed on your feet and you don't need your old dad any more, that's for sure.
- Here's hoping that he and Gretchen and everyone at the show land on their feet - the airwaves will be a lot poorer without them.
- I really fell on my feet: I replied to a flat-share advert and landed myself a double bedroom complete with en-suite bathroom for a very reasonable sum.
- For starters he left me after I'd supported him for six months of him being unemployed, just as I lost my job and he landed on his feet.
- She's very talented and she's definitely going to land on her feet.
- Within weeks of her arrival she landed on her feet, securing a job with West Midlands as a bus conductor.
- But I think, you know, he's got a lot of good years left, and he'll land on his feet.

live off the land

Live on whatever food one can obtain by hunting, gathering, or subsistence farming.
靠山吃山，靠水吃水
Example sentencesExamples
- Richard and Sarah moved to Tuscany planning to grow their own vegetables and live off the land, hoping to harvest olives to make olive oil.
- The soldiers learn how to catch food and live off the land.
- At one time Native people were more or less self-sufficient, living off the land - trapping, fishing, hunting, logging - or working for the railway company in various departments.
- In the century that followed, the Dutch established settlements and devised means to live off the land.
- They have been living off the land there ever since, joined by a slow but steady stream of family and friends whose faces now look out from the pictures dotted around the display.
- Often relocated to disadvantaged areas, the Ojibwa faced poverty and bare subsistence through living off the land and/or farming.
- For countless generations, our people lived off the land.
- During the early 1850s he repeatedly crossed over the mountains and disappeared for months at a time, exploring and living off the land.
- Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers.
- Enroute, Gen. Sherman's troops were cut off from other Union forces and lived off the land.

the lay of the land

1The way in which the features or characteristics of an area present themselves.
1. 1.1The current situation or state of affairs.
  she was beginning to see the lay of the land with her in-laws

Phrasal Verbs

land up

Reach a place or situation; end up.
到达
I landed up in prison
我进了监狱。
Example sentencesExamples
- The fight got uglier when her husband and friend reached the spot and they all landed up at the police station.
- Somehow the bill always lands up on the rate-payers' doormats!
- They lost everything, including several houses, and ended up homeless for a while before landing up in the flat.
- So - the expelled gang members became the criminal kings of the countries they landed up in.
- Follow these precautions for the first few dates with anyone and you'll never land up in a sticky situation!
- The plot is all about the problems faced by an Indian youngster, Indrajeeth, who lands up in New York by accident.
- I landed up at San Francisco around noon local time and then was led to the serpentine queue where visitors to the promised land (the modern one) were lined up.
- Two months ago I landed up in a counselling centre in East London where I met Ash who was to be my future counsellor.
- What if the wind changes, and you land up somewhere that leaves you feeling unprepared?
- He writes and strives for reforms in society and at one point, lands up in jail.
Synonyms
finish up, arrive, find oneself, end up, turn up, come, go, appear

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch land and German Land.

Land²

nounlänt

(in Germany or Austria) a state.
Example sentencesExamples
- These hopes were fuelled by reports from the Länder regarding a significant lowering in the number of crimes involving right-wing violence.
- We have been in contact with every Land in Germany to ensure continuity of teacher recruitment and to foster exchanges and school links.
- In 1991 the new Länder accounted for 20 per cent of reunified Germany's combined labour force but less than 7 per cent of its combined GNP.
- Many countries - e.g. the USA and Germany - have federal constitutions with considerable powers exercised by states or Länder.
- The German Länder have, as it were, an organic claim to authority, and have represented their local communities for much longer.
- This offered the respective Länder governments the possibility of exerting the leading influence, but usually the main opposition party was able to ensure some influence for itself.
- Kohl insisted that these extensions would undermine the position of the German Länder.
- A second school highlights the distinctive role of regional governments in federal systems, however designated - states, provinces, republics, cantons, Länder.
- Since then, the country has consisted of 16 Länder or states, each of which has wide powers over its domestic affairs.
- The 16 Länder (federal states) aim to check whether individual schools have fulfilled their tasks as set down in the education standards.
- This has happened in the post-communist Länder (federal states) of eastern Germany.

Origin

German, literally ‘land’.

词汇	land
释义	land¹ noun landlænd 1mass noun The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water. 陆地 the reptiles lay their eggs on land 爬行动物在陆地上产卵。 after four weeks at sea we sighted land 海上漂泊四星期后我们看见了陆地。 Example sentencesExamples Seismic waves are detected by instruments known as geophones when used on land or hydrophones in water. Equally at home in water or on land, the Newfoundland was large enough to pull in a drowning man or to break the ice to retrieve him. What allows the eel catfish to flourish there is its elongated body and ability to feed on both land and water. There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth. A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region. We're amphibians, living part of our lives in the water and part on land. Movements in water are slower than movements on land due to water resistance. For while adult amphibians usually live on land, their soft eggs must be laid in the water. The ecosystem, both on land and in the water, depends heavily upon the activity of bacteria. The guns can be fired from the vehicle on land or water, or can be dismounted and used in a normal fashion. After the wave comes the trough, where the sea level drops below normal and the water dumped on land pours back to the sea. As happy in the water as on land, this breed is a fearless swimmer, and is most useful for hunting wild fowl. Never dump oil in the water, on land or in the trash; fines can be in the thousands! The melting of sea ice and glaciers on land make surface waters fresher than they are now. If the mine came down on land instead of water, it was supposed to go off seventeen seconds later. The way solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's surface depends primarily on whether the surface is land or sea. It was May, and the island was a meeting place for breeding animals, both in the water and on land. Then imagine that you and your buddy are alone, with no sight of land, nor any surface cover! A car that can drive on land, sail on water and fly through the air will be unveiled next month. When the Earth is viewed from space on a cloudless day, all that can be seen are the edges of land, sea and icecaps. When he did, he noticed that the dam was built half on land and half on water. Synonyms terra firma, dry land, solid ground coast, coastline, shore 1.1as modifier Living or travelling on land rather than in water or the air. 在陆地（或地面）生活（或旅行） a land force 地面部队。 Example sentencesExamples Most sharks are simply not tuned in to eating land mammals. And then, as now, it was essentially a debate between maritime forces and land forces. The report says the amount of contaminants in land mammals such as musk ox and reindeer is still low. Why did we ever choose to become clumsy land beasts when water is our essence and feels so much like home? The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg. Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. Their teeth, like those of most land mammals, still show differentiation into several types. After the war he specialised in tropical medicine and was consultant to the Far East land forces in Singapore. At the moment, silence is being maintained over both the arming of the land forces and the total cost of the military plans. In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded. He pointed out that whales share a number of traits with land mammals, such as milk and a placenta. The best clue we can give you is that these organisms are considered to be the closest living relatives of land plants. A further benefit is that the winter months see greater cloud cover, making it easier for allied land forces to operate unseen. As a part of the fleets and flotillas they operated with land forces to defend ports and installations. In 1700 both land and water transport were still extremely expensive in most parts of Europe. Yet the Pleistocene was also characterized by the presence of distinctive large land mammals and birds. The screened-in shelter on the lakeshore offered a view of both land and water birds. He went on to command the US land forces at D-Day and the subsequent US advance through France. The other important role for the Navy in Asia is to project land forces ashore. Every living land animal with a backbone is descended from the same group of fish. 1.2 An area of ground, especially in terms of its ownership or use. 土地，地产 he bought 360 acres of land waste land 荒地。 measures to reduce logging on federal lands Example sentencesExamples Today the county council said it was not aware of a promise to return to clean up the land but would arrange to tidy up any land which was covered in rubbish. The landscape contains a mosaic of residential, agricultural, old field successional and forested lands. At times one could be forgiven for thinking that there would be no more land left to stake a mineral claim on. The aim is to restore waste land in the deprived area and create a community gardening scheme to attract jobs. On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts. It would be able to seize vehicles caught fly tipping and could prosecute anyone caught dropping litter on any piece of land or water. On a visit many years ago they chanced upon a man who declared he had the best plot of land on God's Earth, on the shores of Loch Melford. The drought has not helped matters as animals have abandoned their traditional grazing lands in search of greener pastures. How much is a prime parcel of Arctic land with a water view? In most islands some small-scale farmers continued to occupy prime lands, maintaining a cash-crop culture on the margins of plantations. Every year the action of the wind destroyed thousands of hectares of fertile lands, apt for cattle exploitation. They say that builders must be discouraged from building on green sites, rather than re-using land in the inner areas. Then on to the Fens - a land of fertile fields and canals and dykes with The Isle of Ely rising majestically from the heart of it all. Last year the archaeologists' project was making sure land to be covered by a cycleway did not include valuable remains. It concerned a man called Mr John White, who bought 586 hectares of farming land in Northland. After selling their farms in Southern California at profitable prices, many citrus growers began looking for new lands to farm. Arable land is one thing the Eastern Cape is not short of but development of much of this has been slow or non-existent. The fishponds there were generally small and sited on marginal lands unusable for agriculture. Any land over 5 hectares that is not urban land is also covered by the proposed regime. The world's cultivated lands have grown to an area about the size of South America. In this case a motorcyclist was injured in a collision at a junction where visibility was restricted by a bank of earth on land owned by British Rail. Synonyms grounds, ground, fields, open space, open area property, acres, acreage, estate, estate, lands, realty, real property, real estate, landholding, holding countryside unbuilt land, rural area, green area, green belt archaic demesne soil, earth, loam, sod, dirt, clay, turf, topsoil, humus, marl 1.3the land Ground or soil used as a basis for agriculture. 农田 my family had worked the land for many years 我家种田已有多年。 Example sentencesExamples So did the early Indo Europeans till the land and possess wheeled vehicles? Savory also noted that too much rest was as bad for the land as too much grazing. While Betsy and Mack spoke of working the land, Leah and Ana talked of different things. Edna Beard fell in love with the countryside while working the land to feed a nation at war. But should we not remember who it was who broke the land and tilled the soil? Dung and bedding, along with all other crop residues, are returned to the land to replenish soil nutrients. She is a country person who believes in using the products of the land. German Mennonites settle the area, cultivate the land and build the infrastructure. In both cases, these local leaders play a key role in what happens on the land, including farm land. Synonyms the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land 1.4the land Rural areas and the rural way of life. many people are leaving the land and going to work in the city Example sentencesExamples But the growth of population was in the towns, and labourers left the land for the cities. Those giving up farming often retain their attachment to the land by keeping their forestry as an investment. It's no coincidence that the majority of those born on the land in the past 20 years want nothing to do with it. The programme, Clarissa and the Countryman, paid homage to the land and its food producers. The Hebridean way of life is bound inextricably to the land. Lumbered with crippling debt, many farmers left the land, paving the way for the corporatization of agriculture. Raised in the rural ethos of Mayo, he grew up with an attachment to the land. For millions of poor peasants, it will mean being driven off the land by cheap agricultural imports. As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, tenant farmers were driven from the land. Synonyms the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land 1.5South African count noun An area fenced off for cultivation; a field. 〈南非〉围垦田地；田地 Example sentencesExamples They will point out that even in the settlement people are starting to make their own gardens, while others are joining them in the untilled lands. He allegedly used state vehicles to take his children to school and also used state property and staff to build structures on his farm and plough his lands. There were no fences, no tractors, no pineapples, no building and cattle were trampling the lands; we have had to start from scratch. Synonyms area, site, development, complex, piece of land, region, tract 2A country or state. 国家 the valley is one of the most beautiful in the land 这山谷是该国最美丽的地方之一。 the lands of the Middle East 中东各国。 Example sentencesExamples During her teens, Samerjan was introduced to unusual fabrics from exotic lands by her father, a successful textile manufacturer. To think of the dads, grandads and brothers who fought in the war to protect our land from Nazis to then see them emerging behind a political party. Naturally air conditioned by windtowers which catch the breezes then funnel them below, the Souk is a great marketplace in which to examine products from countless lands. It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation. We made a lot of wonderful friends, saw some beautiful countryside in lands far away, and experienced some incredible receptions along the way. To understand this answer we must study the philosophy of the history of the world, especially in reference to political geography - the various lands and countries. You won't find a better dance ensemble this side of that imaginary line that separates the US from the wild and beautiful lands and music to its south. Publishers would have to take account of the law of every land on Earth. The reasons for his sudden emergence as a real power in the land were essentially political. The first series proved unmissable with six weeks of first class original music from some of the best bands in the land. Every time one sells or buys a product made from the abuse of others in the so-called Third World nations or their lands makes them guilty of immoral gains. You might be under the impression that, for such a beautiful land, they've been blessed with a truly ugly language. Sailors traveling to exotic foreign lands began to collect tattoos as souvenirs of their journeys. Although women could work in slums or in the back country of foreign lands, national suffrage would surely permanently soil them. After establishing himself as an artist in his native land, he decided to immigrate to the United States. Philip Gailey ends his article with a wish for a country he regards as ‘one of the most beautiful and hospitable lands on the planet’. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. As he travelled across the land evangelizing at revival meetings he took the lads with him. They are fleeing from the dire economic and social circumstances in their own lands to countries that offer them a better future. After all, it's America that is the young country, the republic, the land of informality and classlessness. Synonyms country, nation, state, nation state, fatherland, motherland, homeland, realm, kingdom, empire, republic, commonwealth, province, territory, district, region, area, domain 2.1in combination A particular sphere of activity or group of people. 活动圈；特定领域人群 the blunt, charmless climate of techno-land 技术领域生硬而无吸引力的环境。 2.2 A conceptual area. you're living in a fantasy land 你生活在幻想的国度里。 Example sentencesExamples I have already begun to fall back into my fantasy land, my mind's safe haven. She should have been out eating lunch with Barnes at Goldman's, not in some fantasy land. Too bad that the producers of that series decided to revisit the land of adult insecurities with a whole new cast of characters. My ears cannot stand the sound, especially when my mind is still in that ever so far away land of dreams. But he said anyone who suggested the port would have a cloud of dust hovering over it was in fantasy land. For her the book fair is just a free ticket to fantasy land - one they cannot ignore. This is a land of fantasy, adventure and discovery, a place where those dreams become reality. Once a person reaches this level of isolation, it is hard to come back to the land of sanity. In using them, we work outside the realm of right and wrong, and within the land of cause and effect. She was one of those girls who lives in this fantasy land where absolutely nothing is ever their fault. Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too. Who but one transported by fame into fantasy land could think it? I think I must live in some kind of crazed fantasy land, when I have absolutely NO self awareness whatsoever. Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two. Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches. 3The space between the rifling grooves in a gun. （枪炮）阳膛线 Example sentencesExamples The rotating band contacts the lands and grooves at the forcing cone. The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle. What is radical about the Briley design is that it is rifled with six, straight, equally spaced lands and grooves. It's about 43 inches long, with a 24-inch barrel with one twist and five lands and grooves. Since it uses a reverse electroplating process, there's no abrasive action from bore scouring brushes and no possibility of scratching the lands and grooves. verb landlænd 1with object Put (someone or something) on land from a boat. he landed his troops at Hastings 他率部队在黑斯廷斯登陆。 Example sentencesExamples Over the years we have bought lobsters, prawns, crabs and scallops on the shore outside the house, direct from the boats that landed them. All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there. The rescued mariners were landed at Culdrose, where they were checked by the medical team and given a good breakfast and a chance to rest. The ship's medical officer stitched a number of John's lacerations before the ship landed him at Key West the following day. It is cheek by jowl with the small boats that land the fish, and a stone's throw from the market where it is auctioned. Boats were refused permission by the Department to land their catches at Dingle. It reminded me that Virginia used to impose a fine of 100 pounds on ship's captains landing Quakers in the colony. Military materiel is landed via a bow ramp and also via assault boats through the doors of the flooded well. Sailors and supplies were landed during the night while heavy gunfire was concentrated on the Royalists. Instead of the expected peaceful handover, the Captains of the ships signalled attack, landed their troops and began an all-out assault. The survivor was treated for the effects of drinking seawater, and landed ashore, where he went on to make a full recovery. The King and Queen scallops are landed by local boats which fish the Irish sea. The more I think about it, the more unlikely it is that these girls are landed by boat. One boat that regularly lands the deep-sea species at Scrabster in Caithness is the Amadeus. Then there were the marine corps and army infantry who waded ashore or were landed by air on island after island. When the operation settled down, the boats landed some excellent catches at New Plymouth. Many of the boats have been landing their fish in Killybegs. Your boat will land you at the point where the river meets the sea and from then on you walk. The work will allow boats and barges to land cargo in bad weather because the planned site is sheltered by the reef. When his condition was stable, he was landed at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. The rescued fishermen were transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Valentia Island but luckily none of the men were injured. Free French officers were landed by air and boat to negotiate the port's peaceful transfer, but they received a hostile response as did an advance landing party. It is illegal to dump any waste material at sea and all vessels will have to log and land their waste on returning from sea. The nuclear boat then made visits to affiliates on the islands of Islay and Jura, where some of the crew were landed to tour a few of the most famous whisky distilleries in the world. 1.1no object Go ashore; disembark. 上岸；登陆；下船 the marines landed at a small jetty 陆战队在一个小渔码头登陆。 Example sentencesExamples Thirty-four thousand troops landed that day, but at a high cost, for over 2,500 became casualties. Imagine you land in a port somewhere and want to go into town for groceries and sight seeing. Japan was a Buddhist country when in 1543 Portuguese missionaries landed on Kyushu Island in Southern Japan. The largest group landed in 1893 when four hundred camels and ninety-four men disembarked. From there we stopped at the tiny islands of Providencia and San Andres, finally landing in the rain forests of Panama. As a combat correspondent in World War IL, he landed with the marines at Guam and Iwo Jima. No lives were lost and all landed safely ashore. On May 3 right wing paramilitaries had landed by boat in Bojaya. When the British explorer Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia for Britain. When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy. In 1942 he was evacuated shortly before Singapore fell to the Japanese; his ship was torpedoed and he spent three weeks in an open lifeboat before landing in Java. It's a bay in south-western Cuba, in which US marines landed in 1898 during the Cuban War of Independence. Christopher Columbus landed in Honduras on his last voyage in 1502. Captain James Cook also landed at La France Australe on Christmas Eve 1776. Synonyms disembark, reach the shore, go ashore, debark, alight, get off arrive 1.2 Bring (a fish) to land with a net or rod. （尤指用网或钩）把（鱼）弄上岸 he landed 43 on Saturday Example sentencesExamples I look forward to meeting many of you next year and hopefully landing a few more fish! Meanwhile, I have had to stay at home and go bass fishing, trying to land all of the large bass that are currently around. Pat Gannon landed his first Salmon of the season, a nice 10.5 lb fish at the Gannon fishery. As soon as a fish is tired and ready to be landed the guide will ask you for one so he can loop it through the gills and tie it to a convenient branch while it recovers. International golfer Mark O'Meara was one of those to land a summer salmon, when he hooked and landed an 11 lb fish on the 5th. Dewar won the accolade of top rod overall after clinching first place in all four sessions and Jones landed the biggest fish, a grayling of 42 cm. And, if you dip a fishing rod into any one of their famous fish farms, you're likely to land a very fat salmon or char. I tightened into a fish and soon landed a nice brown trout of about 14 inches. This method proved a success in landing another 16 fish for Roy - an excellent day's sport. No salmon were reported from the river, but like the Bunowen, fish should be running here too and if more anglers were out, we should see some fish landed. There followed a long reminiscence of his lost love, and how she had landed this and that fish of blessed memory. My best mate and fishing partner Simon Crow went out for a week and landed 20 fish up to 48 lb in size. It wasn't long before Lee landed his first pike weighing in at 9lb 11 oz and was also chuffed with himself. The top prize went to Christy Tobin all the way from Limerick while P.J. Brogan from Ballina landed the biggest fish of the day. Tipperary man Frank Acheson had an early success on Tuesday the 3rd, when he landed a 12.5lbs fish on the spinner. Some very good fish have been landed in the past week, with more being hooked and lost. Grant Gibson from Newton St Boswells took the honours after landing an incredible 17 fish from the Melrose stretch. As we approached the anglers, they hooked and landed an immature striped bass. John McDonagh landed a 3 lb fish at Durkan's Pool and several others were hooked and lost. Neil Yates landed the heaviest fish of the day - an 8lb 15 oz carp. Synonyms catch, capture, take captive, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, bag, hook 1.3informal Succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of competition. 〈非正式〉（尤指在激烈竞争中）取得，赢得 she landed the starring role in a new film 她在新电影中获得主演角色。 Example sentencesExamples And as we go to break, a concert scene from the movie that made Bette Midler a star and landed her first Oscar nomination. But Miami, as they soon will be called, landed their largest sports star since Shaq this winter. After that he landed a more central role in The Italian Job opposite Edward Norton, Charlize Theron and rap superstar Marky Mark. The Hyde Park Hotel may have been where Marco landed his third Michelin star but Harvey's was where he made his name. Kilmaine boxers landed three Connacht titles at the recent provincial championships in Westport. It was amazing to see who landed the roles, and even more surprising who caught on with audiences. He didn't look like someone who had landed the plum job in Brussels. Luke was a hero in his own social circles for landing such a key role in a series of movies. Dermot Weld's feat in landing a second Melbourne Cup is a remarkable achievement. Then in October 2001, de Cartier landed the position of creative director at a prestigious music publishing company. He and many others landed jobs on in-shore mackerel boats, fishing tamer waters around the Isle of Skye and Plymouth. Other signings have disappointed but McCormack excelled himself in the close season by landing St George star Darren Treacy. He blindsided the competition by landing Wolfgang Reitzle to run the Premier Auto Group. And a break of 76 in the final frame ensured that the Leeds player landed the £82, 500 first prize. John Thaw, who died from cancer this week at the age of 60, landed his first paid role on a stall at Smithfield Market as a teenager. Using only what God gave me, I landed my first major role in ‘Jesus, Mary and Joeseph!’ Returning home he landed a job writing about the new music for The Spectator. But the Bradford light-middle is not complaining after landing a fight on the Dale Robinson undercard in London on Friday. He has come very close to landing several other major roles recently. The Chargers also landed wide receiver/kick returner Tim Dwight as part of their deal with the Falcons. It was in 1997 that Chris won his first major prize in an open competition by landing the President's Cup and the awards have come thick and fast since then. Synonyms obtain, get, acquire, procure, secure, be appointed to, gain, net, win, earn, achieve, attain, bag, come by, draw, pick up carry off, catch, capture, grab, hook informal get/lay one's hands on, get hold of, get one's mitts on, score, swing, nab, collar, pull down British informal blag 2no object Come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface. （从空中）降落，着陆 we will shortly be landing at Gatwick a fly landed on Tom's nose Example sentencesExamples The presidential helicopter, Marine One, is now landing on the South Lawn at the White House. I heard the rumbling of an engine and scraping of wheels as a plane landed on the runway, and I shifted. Just before the last passenger flight touches down, two more Concordes will also land at the west London airport. Almost four hours later, the green light came on in the helicopter's cabin, signaling that the Marine teams would be landing in three minutes. Despite the dust storm, it landed on the surface and for a few tantalising moments started transmitting the first view from the Martian surface. Before noon, the plane landed on a single runway near town. He said police in a helicopter landed on their farm shortly before 5am with a search warrant. In 1997 the Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the surface of Mars in the mouth of one of the channels. That was what you saw as the helicopters landed at this Marine air base, which is about 65 miles south of the capital. It said the rocket was fired shortly after sunset and landed on a farm land nearly 300 meters short of the embassy building. On 24 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. We landed, disembarked and entered the terminal building, a dank shell of gnawed concrete. A large, black raven glided down and landed on the ground a few feet away. It's going to be fitted with wheels and it will still be doing around 40 to 50 mph when it lands on the runway. We flew on a turboprop military plane and landed on the carrier. The plane, carrying members of the band and their touring staff, overshot after landing in severe weather conditions on arrival from Buffalo, New York. For more than 40 years, the Moon has been visited by automated space probes and by nine manned expeditions, six of which landed on its surface. Likewise, aircraft should require some level of permission from the Department of Conservation before landing in marine reserve areas. It is expected to return to Earth and land in the Australian Outback in June 2007. I'd been to The Bronx only once before, and had exactly the same sensation then, so that by the time you alight you might as well be landing on the moon. Synonyms touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive perch, settle, come down, come to rest, alight bring down, make a landing, put down, take down 2.1with object Bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way. 使（飞机，航天器）降落 the co-pilot landed the plane 副飞行员使飞机降落。 Example sentencesExamples The pilots tried to land the aircraft on a nearby clearing but could not as there were other firefighters standing on the site. Each one was part of a lunar landing mission during which two American astronauts landed a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. My copilot and I knew we had plenty of power to land the aircraft with the remaining two engines. We'll bring you the live pictures as soon as the pilot gets ready to land that aircraft. With enemy cavalry approaching, LT McNamara landed his own aircraft under heavy fire. The purpose of the session was to educate ground crews on the proper procedure for landing a helicopter. They'll then have their photo taken after they've landed the plane they hijacked. The fourth time he landed the aircraft, he crashed it. Even though you have landed the aircraft, there are a lot of things to be done before you can start patting yourself and your crew on the back. Although another pilot took off and landed the aircraft, Mr Henshaw flew it over the Cambridgeshire countryside using its dual controls. The crew landed the aircraft without further incident. So those who managed to eject or safely land their aircraft could live to fight another day. In there, you have to pay close attention to how you simulate landing a Soyuz spacecraft. A Skipton pilot was commended by the Royal Air Force for successfully landing a burning aircraft at Portsmouth airport. Need to land a light aircraft in a hurry but can't find a convenient runway? Being able to land an airplane when the engine has quit is a skill that can save your bacon. In the early '80s, Ray Dolan landed fighter planes on aircraft carriers. The aircraft was immediately landed thereafter and the airframe was inspected. We also flew to Crete and bombed the Maleme airfield which was being used to land the German aeroplanes. Mr Hughes had just landed the helicopter in a field. But a local resident has complained to the council about Mr Kearney's use of his home for taking off and landing his helicopter. Synonyms touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive 2.2 Reach the ground after falling or jumping. （跌倒或起跳后）着地，落地 he leapt over the fence and landed nimbly on his feet 他跳过栅栏敏捷地着地。 Example sentencesExamples I smirked and jumped down, landing on the path behind them. As the chopper got closer to the ground, the person standing jumped off, landing in the sand. She fell backwards, landing with a sickening thud, and didn't move. I connected shoulders with someone and I landed on the ground. He let go of her and jumped back, landing on a rooftop. Leeds Crown Court heard in the process he suddenly dropped some nine metres, landing on his feet, but fell backwards and struck his head. He landed on the ground a few meters away and rolled over several times before he came to a dead halt. In a single movement, she slipped out of the saddle and landed on the ground. He fell through the doctor's arms, landing on his feet and eventually on his bottom. How badly your child may be injured depends on how far she fell and the surface she landed on. She opened the hatch and jumped in, Alec landing right behind her. The lack of tread on the soles saw me fly into the air and nearly land face first on the treadmill. Without another word the siblings jumped, landing in a pile of hay. I tripped over myself as I exited the car and landed on the ground. She dropped her cigarette into a puddle and slid off of the bonnet of my car, landing with a splash on the gravel. Before he could reach it, Jason stumbled on a raised section of the ground and landed on his forearms, struggling to regain his footing. Brian went toppling over, landing with a splash in the pool. A workman who slipped and fell 30 ft off a house roof had an incredible escape when he landed with a splash - in a children's paddling pool. The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement. As Peter saw Marc disappear into the blackness, he felt a dreadful sense of foreboding, hearing the splash when Marc landed. Wearing only a pair of red socks, he slipped when his feet touched down and he landed hard on his back. 2.3with adverbial of place (of an object) come to rest after falling or being thrown. （东西掉下或扔出后）落下不动 the plate landed in her lap 盘子落在她的大腿上。 Example sentencesExamples Without looking up he threw a book that landed with a thud on the table in front of Evelyn. A stone from the top of the wall broke free, triggering a small landslide of pebbles, and landed with a resounding splash in the stream below. He then grabbed my flashlight and threw it so it landed right by my purse. Suddenly this giant brick landed in front of us then we turned around and there was one behind us. Fortunately, at that moment a drop from a high-up stalactite landed in the waiting pool beneath, making a loud splash as it landed. Ice falling off the trees outside, landing on the ground with a thud that makes me jump out of my seat. I watched helplessly as a small splash of milk issued from the jug and landed in the bowl. She flipped a pancake from the hot plate expertly and it landed neatly on her plate of four. A rope came snaking out over the river, landing with a splash at my feet. I felt a drop of water land on the tip of my nose with a plop, mingling with the dirty sweat already on my face. I dropped my fork on the glass plate and it landed with a small ‘clank’. Dara tossed her shoes on the floor and the rest of her belongings landed on the sofa. You'd need to create a diversion, by throwing a rock that lands behind them, making a noise and distracting them temporarily. So it should come as no surprise that, five minutes into lunch, a giant tangle of grilled onions landed right in my lap. I was vigorously taking down notes when a paper ball landed next to me. And just what did the people at the next table say when a dislodged piece of fish landed among their crockery? Forty-four gallon drums of chemicals shot more than a hundred metres high, landing up to 400 metres away. Some landed in the deep fat fryer, splashing oil everywhere. One of the side panels fell off, landing softly on the sandy ground. 2.4informal (of something undesirable or unexpected) arrive suddenly. 〈非正式〉（令人不快或意想不到的事）突然出现 there were more problems than ever landing on her desk 本周似乎有比以往更多的问题突然出现在她的办公桌上。 Example sentencesExamples As application forms for the new fund began landing on desks last week, the reaction from church conservation workers was one of dismay. Being the managing partner means that all the unsolved and ad hoc problems land on my desk. Through bursts of laughter he told me that the first extracts of the new biography about Jack have finally been landing on editors' desks. Do you strictly say no or if the right television product were to land on your desk, would you do sitcoms again? The Cultural Commission's report will land on the desks of the Scottish arts world on Thursday morning. How would you react if the support you need suddenly landed in your lap? The fight of the new millennium between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis has landed in the lap of South African promoter Joe Manyathi. As the language of personal development lands on their business laps, managers learn the sequence of emotions and reactions associated with change. The report will land on the desk of the Ulster Secretary and the Prime Minister on Wednesday. It's the idea of things rushing up on you suddenly, landing on you like an avalanche, hearing a distant rumble and then suddenly finding yourself surrounded by emotion. As I'd been scrambling to create one, a fresh opportunity landed in my lap. We're assuming you're not going to have perjured yourself, Richard, so we'll expect to hear your resignation landing on a desk soon, shall we? The opportunity to do that film landed in my lap. Still, I had hopes that something would change, or the next job would land in my lap as they had done so far. So, after five months of doing something I really wanted in football and a top job now landing in my lap, it wasn't to be. Will he have much influence on the bill that lands on his desk? After we pointed out the many health-giving qualities of the brown stuff, a press release lands on our desk confirming that it is good for you. You know podcasting is a mainstream concept when it lands in the laps of 14-year-olds. The red ink, the comments, and the occasional C minuses: who can erase the dreaded memories of marked school work landing on the desk? 3land someone withinformal with object Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation) 〈非正式〉使处于（困难、讨厌境地） his exploits always landed him in trouble 他的大胆行动总是使他陷入麻烦。 Example sentencesExamples This eventually leads to a complete breakdown that lands Jimmy in the hospital. But it's difficult to argue when traffic jams are landing us in a pickle every day. He landed himself in hot water during a recent party after jokingly asking a woman for sex. She does not think before she opens her mouth and lands him in even more trouble. She is not one to huddle up and go into a corner and that has landed her in these difficulties. Their actions land them in one situation after another that manages to be contrived and clichéd at the same time. Emily Bell thinks the BBC may even have landed itself in hot water over its handling of the matter. Federal officials cited the speech as an ‘overt act’ seeking the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, landing him in prison for three years. An accident lands Maya in a coma in the hospital, and Tamar postpones her trip until her ex wakes up. It is less about the theatre production and more about the actors, their history and how it landed them in this current situation. She told the court on Tuesday he had no idea why his father had been arrested but knew the goods could land him in more trouble. Bowen is the latest in a line of old-style comedians to have landed themselves in hot water after using racially provocative language or jokes. Mr Brookes is well aware that his refusal to pay his income tax demand could land him in very hot water. A bloody confrontation lands Shaw in jail for over a decade and decimates his family. You do feel sorry for him because from all accounts he is a really decent and caring bloke and not at all a big head, but keeps landing himself in hot water. A good right-left combination from Lewis lands Tyson in all sorts of trouble. Hyper-sensitive, he seems continually to be examining himself and putting himself in situations which are apt to land him in trouble. This ambivalence toward their own goals in life can land them in difficult situations. That lands you in a really difficult scientific problem. He landed himself in hot water with the club's fans last summer during a pre-season tour when he let his frustration get the better of him and made a gesture towards the crowd. Synonyms bring, lead, drive, cause to be in, cause to arrive in 3.1land someone with Inflict (an unwelcome task or difficult situation) on someone. 给某人带来（不愉快的任务，困境） the mistake landed the company with a massive bill 这一差错让公司背负巨额账单。 Example sentencesExamples He also landed her with a bill for nearly £1, 000 after ringing chat-lines on her mobile phone. A businessman has been left in a stew after a computer glitch landed him with 250,000 tins of lentil soup. But what has their over-investment landed them with, other than big debts? To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation. It is like a savings scheme but it means that the owners of the properties aren't landed with a large bill. Experts landed us with a police force which is now so warped in its outlook of its responsibilities that it's no longer a force but a service. Good Friday became bad Friday for one group of Chessington residents when they were landed with £320 in parking fines. Craig was viciously beaten by a violent customer in January, which landed him with a fractured skull, both cheekbones broken and a scar near one eye. Smith has been landed with ‘extortionate’ water bills - because travellers are taking water from his supply. A week in hospital in France will land you with a bill for 2000. The stunt was one of 10 things Liam said he'd always wanted to do but it landed him with a life ban. Inevitably this has landed Kirkland with the unwanted reputation of being injury prone. He has had his problems with drinking and, more importantly, getting caught, which landed him an international ban. Surprisingly, Chris discovers her true self during the survival course but lands Charles with a black eye in the process. Now my stupidity had landed me with more bruises. It is an absurdly high level of fines and costs he has been landed with. Dickinson left the field with a nasty head wound which could land Hagan with a hefty ban if he is found guilty. His tip-off to police landed Bailey with a five-year jail sentence when he appeared at York Crown Court. The Evening Press has learned that his history of impersonation and con tricks has landed him with prison sentences before. Frustration at the loss of a telephone charger landed a man with a £700 bill for damage to a car. Synonyms burden, saddle, encumber, trouble, tax, load informal dump something on someone British informal lumber 4informal with object Inflict (a blow) on someone. 〈非正式〉殴打 I won the fight without landing a single punch 我一拳都没打中就赢了。 Example sentencesExamples Tyson was bleeding from cuts over both his eyes and from his nose when Lewis landed a punch that sent him sprawling on his back in Lewis' corner. He parried all of the soldier's blows and then landed one of his own, on the soldier's armored stomach. He threw the next punch at Joey's gut, catching Joey off guard and landing another punch at Joey's face. In round 1, Donis landed a hard right hook that was his most significant punch of the round. Ali got off his toes for the first time in the fight and landed his most meaningful punches. Raymond, enraged at being laughed at, charged forward and tried landing the first strike. He screamed, landing a powerful blow directly into the man's stomach. Over time, he lost a split-second, just enough to make him less capable of pulling away from blows or landing one of his tremendous counterpunches that come out of nowhere. Magee, who entered the contest unbeaten in 22 fights, began confidently, landing the more telling blows. Down but not out, she gives as good as she gets, and manages to land a few punches before the soldier gets away. Pursing his lips, he landed a heavy right hook on the boy's jaw before he could dodge, sending his head snapping back forcefully. The two fighters from the boxing crazy Eastern Cape began dishing heavy leather from the onset but Marali landed the most telling blows. Jimmy's making the fight but Foster's landing the more effective blows. She'd landed another few blows when he caught her wrist and twisted. Rocky was the aggressor throughout the fight and landed all the punishing blows, but the judges announced Wallace as the winner. They brawled near the ropes and Hopkins landed a sneaky left hook to Oscar's liver. He landed a few successful blows before he was roughly pulled back by two sets of strong arms. He suddenly realized Red meant them when he landed a solid left hook to his abdomen. He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid. It is possible that when the fight statistics are scrutinised that Arias, the Brazilian heavyweight champion, will have a tally of punches landed in single figures. Synonyms inflict, deal, deliver, administer, deposit, dispense, give, catch, mete out informal fetch Phrases how the land lies What the situation is. 事情处于某种状态 let's keep it to ourselves until we see how the land lies 我们看清事态之前先对此事保密。 Example sentencesExamples Let's see how the land lies after Grafton Street opens, OK? You know what you're doing here, you know how the land lies. Your response counts, because it tells them, and the BBC how the land lies. He's had a hand in one long-standing magazine and one that went under, so he seemed like the perfect person to show me how the land lies in the magazine world. Just to see how the land lies, I approached Dave Linley, who has been given the job of looking after the spare tickets. Synonyms the facts, the details, the particulars, the picture, how things stand, the lie of the land, how the land lies, the case in the land of the living humorous Alive or awake. 〈幽默〉活着，醒着 the doctor was amazed to find me still in the land of the living if the general's in the land of the living, I'd like a word Example sentencesExamples As I write these words, it is unclear whether he is still in the land of the living. Two cans of Red Bull and a cigarette later I'm back in the land of the living only to hear Norah Jones' silky croon spewing from my speakers. As long as my friend was firmly in the land of the living, I took her existence for granted. Well, I'm back in the land of the living again with an internet connection! Am now back in the land of the living, only to be faced with ten bazillion emails and two letters from the House of Commons (that'll be my MP then). They cut him down, chucked water over his face to revive him and make sure he was still in the land of the living. She tilted his face to look at her to check for signs of life, finding thankfully that the lad was indeed still in the land of the living. There's nothing like an appalling film to put you back in the land of the living. She and Kevin were in the land of the living, and it was so very good to feel the rumble of life again. In that instance, as it is now, it was very comforting to know that I was wrong and he had been slyly enjoying his years in the land of the living. Synonyms living, live, having life, not dead the land of the free The United States of America. 自由之邦（指美国） in the land of the free virtually anyone is free to wield a gun Example sentencesExamples He wouldn't stop talking about his first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty from the ship that brought him to the land of the free as a teenage immigrant. The arguments did not go down all that well in a nation whose people are still profoundly convinced that America remains the land of the free. It seems that, in the land of the free, teens must not be subjected to full-on satire. After all, it's the land of the free and the home of the abstinence vow, where many teenagers pledge to be celibate until marriage. He became a major in the French army and following the defeat of France he sailed for America, the land of the free. And while over-consumption is hardly new in the land of the free, marketers are increasingly targeting children. Yes, I just moved back from London to the land of the free. I have always looked up to America as the land of the free and the home of the brave and my heart is aching for you all right now. I'm in the land of the free, and I won't be blogging. Outside the land of the free, America's IT suppliers are admired more than America's political values. the land of Nod humorous A state of sleep. 〈幽默〉睡眠状，梦乡 the tape is guaranteed to send babies and toddlers to the land of Nod Example sentencesExamples I fought off the sleep interruption and went back to the land of Nod. Now researchers are finding that the land of Nod may be especially difficult to reach for women. May dreams of the fearless left-winger escort you to the land of Nod. I want to stay where it is safe, lost in the sleepy, dreamy land of Nod. The elements that will transport some viewers into raptures will no doubt merely send others into the land of Nod, but it is well worth surrendering to the film's hypnotic spell. I left, drank my hot chocolate and so to bed with disappointed musings as I drifted off to the land of Nod. Synonyms sleep, slumber, land of nod land (or fall) on one's feet Have good luck or success. 走运，成功 after some ups and downs he has finally landed on his feet 经过一些曲折，他最终成功了。 Example sentencesExamples For starters he left me after I'd supported him for six months of him being unemployed, just as I lost my job and he landed on his feet. Here's hoping that he and Gretchen and everyone at the show land on their feet - the airwaves will be a lot poorer without them. But I think, you know, he's got a lot of good years left, and he'll land on his feet. She's very talented and she's definitely going to land on her feet. But no, miss high and mighty, you've landed on your feet and you don't need your old dad any more, that's for sure. He said his son was a lucky person who always landed on his feet. Within weeks of her arrival she landed on her feet, securing a job with West Midlands as a bus conductor. Ranieri has landed on his feet, loved and lauded in two cities. I really fell on my feet: I replied to a flat-share advert and landed myself a double bedroom complete with en-suite bathroom for a very reasonable sum. Luckily for Ollie, and Man City, he has loyal supporters, and somehow always manages to land on his feet. live off the land Live on whatever food one can obtain by hunting, gathering, or subsistence farming. 靠山吃山，靠水吃水 George used the fieldcraft taught to him by his father to live off the land Example sentencesExamples For countless generations, our people lived off the land. At one time Native people were more or less self-sufficient, living off the land - trapping, fishing, hunting, logging - or working for the railway company in various departments. The soldiers learn how to catch food and live off the land. During the early 1850s he repeatedly crossed over the mountains and disappeared for months at a time, exploring and living off the land. Enroute, Gen. Sherman's troops were cut off from other Union forces and lived off the land. In the century that followed, the Dutch established settlements and devised means to live off the land. Often relocated to disadvantaged areas, the Ojibwa faced poverty and bare subsistence through living off the land and/or farming. They have been living off the land there ever since, joined by a slow but steady stream of family and friends whose faces now look out from the pictures dotted around the display. Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers. Richard and Sarah moved to Tuscany planning to grow their own vegetables and live off the land, hoping to harvest olives to make olive oil. the lie of the land 1The features or characteristics of an area. a night patrol about to scout out the lie of the land 1.1The current situation. she was beginning to see the lie of the land with her in-laws Phrasal Verbs land up Reach a place or situation. 到达 the ship landed up on the south coast of Devon 船到达德文郡南岸。 I landed up in prison 我进了监狱。 Example sentencesExamples Follow these precautions for the first few dates with anyone and you'll never land up in a sticky situation! The plot is all about the problems faced by an Indian youngster, Indrajeeth, who lands up in New York by accident. I landed up at San Francisco around noon local time and then was led to the serpentine queue where visitors to the promised land (the modern one) were lined up. He writes and strives for reforms in society and at one point, lands up in jail. They lost everything, including several houses, and ended up homeless for a while before landing up in the flat. So - the expelled gang members became the criminal kings of the countries they landed up in. What if the wind changes, and you land up somewhere that leaves you feeling unprepared? Somehow the bill always lands up on the rate-payers' doormats! Two months ago I landed up in a counselling centre in East London where I met Ash who was to be my future counsellor. The fight got uglier when her husband and friend reached the spot and they all landed up at the police station. Synonyms finish up, arrive, find oneself, end up, turn up, come, go, appear land up with End up with (an unwelcome situation) 以（某种不利情况）告终 I landed up with three broken ribs 结果我折断了三根肋骨。 Example sentencesExamples In my many years of experience as a beautician I have seen that many young girls land up with a bad skin mostly because they are ignorant of the basic care required. It's a vote for a smoother, wittier, more stylish world than the one we've landed up with: the chink of glass against glass and the devastating couplet. So it is not necessary to give antibiotics, every time the child lands up with a cough, cold or wheezing. However, the debts that I shall run up with at uni are likely to be huge - the average student in 2003 is (calculated by the government) going to land up with a £15,000 debt. His ex-wife told Scotland on Sunday: ‘He landed up with a criminal conviction for assault.’ Out of five pitches, however, we land up with one new client. Padding down the lighted street, Ria kicked an empty beer can and wondered how everyone else got such good lives and she landed up with such a rubbish family. If we are trying to ape the west, what we will land up with is a whole lot of emotional wrecks. Which genes we land up with and how they interact with our pre- and post natal environments is a lottery. Just as in a car, if we put the wrong fuel into our bodies, we land up with problems. Conversely, the much maligned Campbell clambered off the bench and repeated the exercise to ensure RMI landed up with a goalless stalemate for the first time in the league this season. The merged firm will land up with two overlapping product sets that are difficult to integrate and a client set that will be unwilling to migrate. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch land and German Land. Celtic words such as Irish lann ‘enclosure’ and Welsh llan ‘enclosure, church’ are related to land, as well as the closer Dutch land and German Land. In the land of the living is now a jokey way of saying that someone is alive or awake. The expression is biblical, occurring for example in the Book of Job: ‘Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.’ The land of Nod is also biblical, first used for the state of sleep by Jonathan Swift, who based it on the place name Nod in Genesis: ‘And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden’. Landscape (late 16th century) was first used as a term for a picture of natural scenery: it comes from Middle Dutch lantscap, from land ‘land’ and -scap (the equivalent of the English suffix -ship). Rhymes and, band, bland, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand, righthand, Samarkand, sand, stand, strand, thirdhand, underhand, undermanned, understand, unplanned, untanned, withstand Land² nounPlural Länder lantlandlänt A state of Germany or Austria. Example sentencesExamples A second school highlights the distinctive role of regional governments in federal systems, however designated - states, provinces, republics, cantons, Länder. We have been in contact with every Land in Germany to ensure continuity of teacher recruitment and to foster exchanges and school links. These hopes were fuelled by reports from the Länder regarding a significant lowering in the number of crimes involving right-wing violence. Many countries - e.g. the USA and Germany - have federal constitutions with considerable powers exercised by states or Länder. Kohl insisted that these extensions would undermine the position of the German Länder. In 1991 the new Länder accounted for 20 per cent of reunified Germany's combined labour force but less than 7 per cent of its combined GNP. Since then, the country has consisted of 16 Länder or states, each of which has wide powers over its domestic affairs. The 16 Länder (federal states) aim to check whether individual schools have fulfilled their tasks as set down in the education standards. This offered the respective Länder governments the possibility of exerting the leading influence, but usually the main opposition party was able to ensure some influence for itself. This has happened in the post-communist Länder (federal states) of eastern Germany. The German Länder have, as it were, an organic claim to authority, and have represented their local communities for much longer. Origin German, literally 'land'. noun.1 phr. phr.v. noun.2 land¹ nounlændland 1The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water, as opposed to the sea or the air. 陆地 the reptiles lay their eggs on land 爬行动物在陆地上产卵。 after four weeks at sea we sighted land 海上漂泊四星期后我们看见了陆地。 Example sentencesExamples When the Earth is viewed from space on a cloudless day, all that can be seen are the edges of land, sea and icecaps. The ecosystem, both on land and in the water, depends heavily upon the activity of bacteria. Never dump oil in the water, on land or in the trash; fines can be in the thousands! The guns can be fired from the vehicle on land or water, or can be dismounted and used in a normal fashion. As happy in the water as on land, this breed is a fearless swimmer, and is most useful for hunting wild fowl. If the mine came down on land instead of water, it was supposed to go off seventeen seconds later. Movements in water are slower than movements on land due to water resistance. What allows the eel catfish to flourish there is its elongated body and ability to feed on both land and water. The melting of sea ice and glaciers on land make surface waters fresher than they are now. Equally at home in water or on land, the Newfoundland was large enough to pull in a drowning man or to break the ice to retrieve him. Then imagine that you and your buddy are alone, with no sight of land, nor any surface cover! A fortnight ago, 800,000 square kilometres of land were under water across the region. We're amphibians, living part of our lives in the water and part on land. There are 26,000 million insects living in every square mile of habitable land on Earth. When he did, he noticed that the dam was built half on land and half on water. After the wave comes the trough, where the sea level drops below normal and the water dumped on land pours back to the sea. A car that can drive on land, sail on water and fly through the air will be unveiled next month. It was May, and the island was a meeting place for breeding animals, both in the water and on land. The way solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's surface depends primarily on whether the surface is land or sea. Seismic waves are detected by instruments known as geophones when used on land or hydrophones in water. For while adult amphibians usually live on land, their soft eggs must be laid in the water. Synonyms terra firma, dry land, solid ground 1.1as modifier Living or traveling on land rather than in water or the air. 在陆地（或地面）生活（或旅行） a land mammal Example sentencesExamples The screened-in shelter on the lakeshore offered a view of both land and water birds. And then, as now, it was essentially a debate between maritime forces and land forces. Yet the Pleistocene was also characterized by the presence of distinctive large land mammals and birds. Every living land animal with a backbone is descended from the same group of fish. He pointed out that whales share a number of traits with land mammals, such as milk and a placenta. He went on to command the US land forces at D-Day and the subsequent US advance through France. Most sharks are simply not tuned in to eating land mammals. The best clue we can give you is that these organisms are considered to be the closest living relatives of land plants. Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. A further benefit is that the winter months see greater cloud cover, making it easier for allied land forces to operate unseen. As a part of the fleets and flotillas they operated with land forces to defend ports and installations. The African elephant is the largest living land animal and weighs up to 5,400 kg. In 1700 both land and water transport were still extremely expensive in most parts of Europe. At the moment, silence is being maintained over both the arming of the land forces and the total cost of the military plans. Their teeth, like those of most land mammals, still show differentiation into several types. The report says the amount of contaminants in land mammals such as musk ox and reindeer is still low. In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded. Why did we ever choose to become clumsy land beasts when water is our essence and feels so much like home? After the war he specialised in tropical medicine and was consultant to the Far East land forces in Singapore. The other important role for the Navy in Asia is to project land forces ashore. 1.2 An expanse of land; an area of ground, especially in terms of its ownership or use. 土地，地产 the land north of the village 村北的土地。 the Indians were wiped out as gold prospectors invaded their lands 随着探金者侵入他们的土地，印第安人被灭绝了。 Example sentencesExamples How much is a prime parcel of Arctic land with a water view? In most islands some small-scale farmers continued to occupy prime lands, maintaining a cash-crop culture on the margins of plantations. After selling their farms in Southern California at profitable prices, many citrus growers began looking for new lands to farm. Then on to the Fens - a land of fertile fields and canals and dykes with The Isle of Ely rising majestically from the heart of it all. Today the county council said it was not aware of a promise to return to clean up the land but would arrange to tidy up any land which was covered in rubbish. They say that builders must be discouraged from building on green sites, rather than re-using land in the inner areas. Arable land is one thing the Eastern Cape is not short of but development of much of this has been slow or non-existent. The world's cultivated lands have grown to an area about the size of South America. The fishponds there were generally small and sited on marginal lands unusable for agriculture. Last year the archaeologists' project was making sure land to be covered by a cycleway did not include valuable remains. Any land over 5 hectares that is not urban land is also covered by the proposed regime. It would be able to seize vehicles caught fly tipping and could prosecute anyone caught dropping litter on any piece of land or water. On a visit many years ago they chanced upon a man who declared he had the best plot of land on God's Earth, on the shores of Loch Melford. On every edge of the suburbs were hayfields, waste lands, ditches and culverts. The aim is to restore waste land in the deprived area and create a community gardening scheme to attract jobs. Every year the action of the wind destroyed thousands of hectares of fertile lands, apt for cattle exploitation. At times one could be forgiven for thinking that there would be no more land left to stake a mineral claim on. It concerned a man called Mr John White, who bought 586 hectares of farming land in Northland. In this case a motorcyclist was injured in a collision at a junction where visibility was restricted by a bank of earth on land owned by British Rail. The drought has not helped matters as animals have abandoned their traditional grazing lands in search of greener pastures. The landscape contains a mosaic of residential, agricultural, old field successional and forested lands. Synonyms grounds, ground, fields, open space, open area soil, earth, loam, sod, dirt, clay, turf, topsoil, humus, marl 1.3the land Ground or soil used as a basis for agriculture. 农田 my family had worked the land for many years 我家种田已有多年。 Example sentencesExamples She is a country person who believes in using the products of the land. Dung and bedding, along with all other crop residues, are returned to the land to replenish soil nutrients. In both cases, these local leaders play a key role in what happens on the land, including farm land. German Mennonites settle the area, cultivate the land and build the infrastructure. While Betsy and Mack spoke of working the land, Leah and Ana talked of different things. But should we not remember who it was who broke the land and tilled the soil? Savory also noted that too much rest was as bad for the land as too much grazing. So did the early Indo Europeans till the land and possess wheeled vehicles? Edna Beard fell in love with the countryside while working the land to feed a nation at war. Synonyms the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land 2A country. 国家 the valley is one of the most beautiful in the land 这山谷是该国最美丽的地方之一。 the lands of the Middle East 中东各国。 America, the land of political equality 美国，政治平等之国。 Example sentencesExamples Publishers would have to take account of the law of every land on Earth. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. To understand this answer we must study the philosophy of the history of the world, especially in reference to political geography - the various lands and countries. They are fleeing from the dire economic and social circumstances in their own lands to countries that offer them a better future. The first series proved unmissable with six weeks of first class original music from some of the best bands in the land. Every time one sells or buys a product made from the abuse of others in the so-called Third World nations or their lands makes them guilty of immoral gains. We made a lot of wonderful friends, saw some beautiful countryside in lands far away, and experienced some incredible receptions along the way. Although women could work in slums or in the back country of foreign lands, national suffrage would surely permanently soil them. As he travelled across the land evangelizing at revival meetings he took the lads with him. You might be under the impression that, for such a beautiful land, they've been blessed with a truly ugly language. It has been the land of mighty empires, a powerful trading nation rich in culture and civilisation. During her teens, Samerjan was introduced to unusual fabrics from exotic lands by her father, a successful textile manufacturer. You won't find a better dance ensemble this side of that imaginary line that separates the US from the wild and beautiful lands and music to its south. After establishing himself as an artist in his native land, he decided to immigrate to the United States. Sailors traveling to exotic foreign lands began to collect tattoos as souvenirs of their journeys. After all, it's America that is the young country, the republic, the land of informality and classlessness. Naturally air conditioned by windtowers which catch the breezes then funnel them below, the Souk is a great marketplace in which to examine products from countless lands. To think of the dads, grandads and brothers who fought in the war to protect our land from Nazis to then see them emerging behind a political party. The reasons for his sudden emergence as a real power in the land were essentially political. Philip Gailey ends his article with a wish for a country he regards as ‘one of the most beautiful and hospitable lands on the planet’. Synonyms country, nation, state, nation state, fatherland, motherland, homeland, realm, kingdom, empire, republic, commonwealth, province, territory, district, region, area, domain 2.1 A conceptual realm or domain. 〈喻〉范围，领域 you are living in a fantasy land 你生活在幻想的国度里。 Example sentencesExamples I think I must live in some kind of crazed fantasy land, when I have absolutely NO self awareness whatsoever. Too bad that the producers of that series decided to revisit the land of adult insecurities with a whole new cast of characters. Who but one transported by fame into fantasy land could think it? Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches. I have already begun to fall back into my fantasy land, my mind's safe haven. This is a land of fantasy, adventure and discovery, a place where those dreams become reality. For her the book fair is just a free ticket to fantasy land - one they cannot ignore. In using them, we work outside the realm of right and wrong, and within the land of cause and effect. My ears cannot stand the sound, especially when my mind is still in that ever so far away land of dreams. Through reading the Harry Potter series, it would seem many want to enter children's imaginary fantasy lands, too. But he said anyone who suggested the port would have a cloud of dust hovering over it was in fantasy land. Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two. She should have been out eating lunch with Barnes at Goldman's, not in some fantasy land. She was one of those girls who lives in this fantasy land where absolutely nothing is ever their fault. Once a person reaches this level of isolation, it is hard to come back to the land of sanity. 3The space between the rifling grooves in a gun. （枪炮）阳膛线 Example sentencesExamples It's about 43 inches long, with a 24-inch barrel with one twist and five lands and grooves. The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle. The rotating band contacts the lands and grooves at the forcing cone. Since it uses a reverse electroplating process, there's no abrasive action from bore scouring brushes and no possibility of scratching the lands and grooves. What is radical about the Briley design is that it is rifled with six, straight, equally spaced lands and grooves. verblændland 1with object Put (someone or something) on land from a boat. the lifeboat landed the survivors safely ashore Example sentencesExamples When his condition was stable, he was landed at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. When the operation settled down, the boats landed some excellent catches at New Plymouth. The King and Queen scallops are landed by local boats which fish the Irish sea. Boats were refused permission by the Department to land their catches at Dingle. Many of the boats have been landing their fish in Killybegs. Instead of the expected peaceful handover, the Captains of the ships signalled attack, landed their troops and began an all-out assault. The rescued fishermen were transferred to the lifeboat and landed at Valentia Island but luckily none of the men were injured. Then there were the marine corps and army infantry who waded ashore or were landed by air on island after island. It is cheek by jowl with the small boats that land the fish, and a stone's throw from the market where it is auctioned. Your boat will land you at the point where the river meets the sea and from then on you walk. It is illegal to dump any waste material at sea and all vessels will have to log and land their waste on returning from sea. The more I think about it, the more unlikely it is that these girls are landed by boat. The rescued mariners were landed at Culdrose, where they were checked by the medical team and given a good breakfast and a chance to rest. All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there. The nuclear boat then made visits to affiliates on the islands of Islay and Jura, where some of the crew were landed to tour a few of the most famous whisky distilleries in the world. Sailors and supplies were landed during the night while heavy gunfire was concentrated on the Royalists. The ship's medical officer stitched a number of John's lacerations before the ship landed him at Key West the following day. The survivor was treated for the effects of drinking seawater, and landed ashore, where he went on to make a full recovery. One boat that regularly lands the deep-sea species at Scrabster in Caithness is the Amadeus. It reminded me that Virginia used to impose a fine of 100 pounds on ship's captains landing Quakers in the colony. Free French officers were landed by air and boat to negotiate the port's peaceful transfer, but they received a hostile response as did an advance landing party. Over the years we have bought lobsters, prawns, crabs and scallops on the shore outside the house, direct from the boats that landed them. Military materiel is landed via a bow ramp and also via assault boats through the doors of the flooded well. The work will allow boats and barges to land cargo in bad weather because the planned site is sheltered by the reef. 1.1no object Go ashore; disembark. 上岸；登陆；下船 the marines landed at a small fishing jetty 陆战队在一个小渔码头登陆。 Example sentencesExamples Christopher Columbus landed in Honduras on his last voyage in 1502. In 1942 he was evacuated shortly before Singapore fell to the Japanese; his ship was torpedoed and he spent three weeks in an open lifeboat before landing in Java. As a combat correspondent in World War IL, he landed with the marines at Guam and Iwo Jima. When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy. No lives were lost and all landed safely ashore. From there we stopped at the tiny islands of Providencia and San Andres, finally landing in the rain forests of Panama. Captain James Cook also landed at La France Australe on Christmas Eve 1776. Japan was a Buddhist country when in 1543 Portuguese missionaries landed on Kyushu Island in Southern Japan. Thirty-four thousand troops landed that day, but at a high cost, for over 2,500 became casualties. It's a bay in south-western Cuba, in which US marines landed in 1898 during the Cuban War of Independence. When the British explorer Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia for Britain. On May 3 right wing paramilitaries had landed by boat in Bojaya. The largest group landed in 1893 when four hundred camels and ninety-four men disembarked. Imagine you land in a port somewhere and want to go into town for groceries and sight seeing. Synonyms disembark, reach the shore, go ashore, debark, alight, get off 1.2 Bring (a fish) to land, especially with a net or hook. （尤指用网或钩）把（鱼）弄上岸 I landed a scrappy three-pound walleye Example sentencesExamples Meanwhile, I have had to stay at home and go bass fishing, trying to land all of the large bass that are currently around. And, if you dip a fishing rod into any one of their famous fish farms, you're likely to land a very fat salmon or char. International golfer Mark O'Meara was one of those to land a summer salmon, when he hooked and landed an 11 lb fish on the 5th. My best mate and fishing partner Simon Crow went out for a week and landed 20 fish up to 48 lb in size. Some very good fish have been landed in the past week, with more being hooked and lost. It wasn't long before Lee landed his first pike weighing in at 9lb 11 oz and was also chuffed with himself. Grant Gibson from Newton St Boswells took the honours after landing an incredible 17 fish from the Melrose stretch. Neil Yates landed the heaviest fish of the day - an 8lb 15 oz carp. There followed a long reminiscence of his lost love, and how she had landed this and that fish of blessed memory. I look forward to meeting many of you next year and hopefully landing a few more fish! No salmon were reported from the river, but like the Bunowen, fish should be running here too and if more anglers were out, we should see some fish landed. Pat Gannon landed his first Salmon of the season, a nice 10.5 lb fish at the Gannon fishery. The top prize went to Christy Tobin all the way from Limerick while P.J. Brogan from Ballina landed the biggest fish of the day. Tipperary man Frank Acheson had an early success on Tuesday the 3rd, when he landed a 12.5lbs fish on the spinner. Dewar won the accolade of top rod overall after clinching first place in all four sessions and Jones landed the biggest fish, a grayling of 42 cm. I tightened into a fish and soon landed a nice brown trout of about 14 inches. As soon as a fish is tired and ready to be landed the guide will ask you for one so he can loop it through the gills and tie it to a convenient branch while it recovers. As we approached the anglers, they hooked and landed an immature striped bass. John McDonagh landed a 3 lb fish at Durkan's Pool and several others were hooked and lost. This method proved a success in landing another 16 fish for Roy - an excellent day's sport. Synonyms catch, capture, take captive, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, bag, hook 1.3informal Succeed in obtaining or achieving (something desirable), especially in the face of strong competition. 〈非正式〉（尤指在激烈竞争中）取得，赢得 she landed the starring role in a new film 她在新电影中获得主演角色。 Example sentencesExamples Kilmaine boxers landed three Connacht titles at the recent provincial championships in Westport. It was amazing to see who landed the roles, and even more surprising who caught on with audiences. Luke was a hero in his own social circles for landing such a key role in a series of movies. Then in October 2001, de Cartier landed the position of creative director at a prestigious music publishing company. He has come very close to landing several other major roles recently. Other signings have disappointed but McCormack excelled himself in the close season by landing St George star Darren Treacy. He didn't look like someone who had landed the plum job in Brussels. Using only what God gave me, I landed my first major role in ‘Jesus, Mary and Joeseph!’ The Hyde Park Hotel may have been where Marco landed his third Michelin star but Harvey's was where he made his name. And as we go to break, a concert scene from the movie that made Bette Midler a star and landed her first Oscar nomination. But Miami, as they soon will be called, landed their largest sports star since Shaq this winter. Returning home he landed a job writing about the new music for The Spectator. The Chargers also landed wide receiver/kick returner Tim Dwight as part of their deal with the Falcons. After that he landed a more central role in The Italian Job opposite Edward Norton, Charlize Theron and rap superstar Marky Mark. And a break of 76 in the final frame ensured that the Leeds player landed the £82, 500 first prize. It was in 1997 that Chris won his first major prize in an open competition by landing the President's Cup and the awards have come thick and fast since then. John Thaw, who died from cancer this week at the age of 60, landed his first paid role on a stall at Smithfield Market as a teenager. He and many others landed jobs on in-shore mackerel boats, fishing tamer waters around the Isle of Skye and Plymouth. He blindsided the competition by landing Wolfgang Reitzle to run the Premier Auto Group. But the Bradford light-middle is not complaining after landing a fight on the Dale Robinson undercard in London on Friday. Dermot Weld's feat in landing a second Melbourne Cup is a remarkable achievement. Synonyms obtain, get, acquire, procure, secure, be appointed to, gain, net, win, earn, achieve, attain, bag, come by, draw, pick up 2no object Come down through the air and alight on the ground. （从空中）降落，着陆 planes landing at the rate of two a minute Example sentencesExamples He said police in a helicopter landed on their farm shortly before 5am with a search warrant. Before noon, the plane landed on a single runway near town. In 1997 the Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the surface of Mars in the mouth of one of the channels. I heard the rumbling of an engine and scraping of wheels as a plane landed on the runway, and I shifted. A large, black raven glided down and landed on the ground a few feet away. It's going to be fitted with wheels and it will still be doing around 40 to 50 mph when it lands on the runway. I'd been to The Bronx only once before, and had exactly the same sensation then, so that by the time you alight you might as well be landing on the moon. That was what you saw as the helicopters landed at this Marine air base, which is about 65 miles south of the capital. Despite the dust storm, it landed on the surface and for a few tantalising moments started transmitting the first view from the Martian surface. Almost four hours later, the green light came on in the helicopter's cabin, signaling that the Marine teams would be landing in three minutes. The plane, carrying members of the band and their touring staff, overshot after landing in severe weather conditions on arrival from Buffalo, New York. We landed, disembarked and entered the terminal building, a dank shell of gnawed concrete. Likewise, aircraft should require some level of permission from the Department of Conservation before landing in marine reserve areas. We flew on a turboprop military plane and landed on the carrier. The presidential helicopter, Marine One, is now landing on the South Lawn at the White House. It said the rocket was fired shortly after sunset and landed on a farm land nearly 300 meters short of the embassy building. On 24 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. Just before the last passenger flight touches down, two more Concordes will also land at the west London airport. It is expected to return to Earth and land in the Australian Outback in June 2007. For more than 40 years, the Moon has been visited by automated space probes and by nine manned expeditions, six of which landed on its surface. Synonyms touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive perch, settle, come down, come to rest, alight bring down, make a landing, put down, take down 2.1with object Bring (an aircraft or spacecraft) to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way. 使（飞机，航天器）降落 the copilot landed the plane 副飞行员使飞机降落。 Example sentencesExamples But a local resident has complained to the council about Mr Kearney's use of his home for taking off and landing his helicopter. The purpose of the session was to educate ground crews on the proper procedure for landing a helicopter. Need to land a light aircraft in a hurry but can't find a convenient runway? The crew landed the aircraft without further incident. In the early '80s, Ray Dolan landed fighter planes on aircraft carriers. A Skipton pilot was commended by the Royal Air Force for successfully landing a burning aircraft at Portsmouth airport. So those who managed to eject or safely land their aircraft could live to fight another day. Being able to land an airplane when the engine has quit is a skill that can save your bacon. Although another pilot took off and landed the aircraft, Mr Henshaw flew it over the Cambridgeshire countryside using its dual controls. With enemy cavalry approaching, LT McNamara landed his own aircraft under heavy fire. In there, you have to pay close attention to how you simulate landing a Soyuz spacecraft. They'll then have their photo taken after they've landed the plane they hijacked. The fourth time he landed the aircraft, he crashed it. We'll bring you the live pictures as soon as the pilot gets ready to land that aircraft. My copilot and I knew we had plenty of power to land the aircraft with the remaining two engines. Each one was part of a lunar landing mission during which two American astronauts landed a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. We also flew to Crete and bombed the Maleme airfield which was being used to land the German aeroplanes. Mr Hughes had just landed the helicopter in a field. Even though you have landed the aircraft, there are a lot of things to be done before you can start patting yourself and your crew on the back. The aircraft was immediately landed thereafter and the airframe was inspected. The pilots tried to land the aircraft on a nearby clearing but could not as there were other firefighters standing on the site. Synonyms touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive 2.2 Reach the ground after falling or jumping. （跌倒或起跳后）着地，落地 he leaped over the fence and landed nimbly on his feet 他跳过栅栏敏捷地着地。 Example sentencesExamples The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement. As the chopper got closer to the ground, the person standing jumped off, landing in the sand. He landed on the ground a few meters away and rolled over several times before he came to a dead halt. Brian went toppling over, landing with a splash in the pool. I smirked and jumped down, landing on the path behind them. Leeds Crown Court heard in the process he suddenly dropped some nine metres, landing on his feet, but fell backwards and struck his head. She dropped her cigarette into a puddle and slid off of the bonnet of my car, landing with a splash on the gravel. I tripped over myself as I exited the car and landed on the ground. Before he could reach it, Jason stumbled on a raised section of the ground and landed on his forearms, struggling to regain his footing. I connected shoulders with someone and I landed on the ground. Without another word the siblings jumped, landing in a pile of hay. A workman who slipped and fell 30 ft off a house roof had an incredible escape when he landed with a splash - in a children's paddling pool. He fell through the doctor's arms, landing on his feet and eventually on his bottom. She fell backwards, landing with a sickening thud, and didn't move. He let go of her and jumped back, landing on a rooftop. The lack of tread on the soles saw me fly into the air and nearly land face first on the treadmill. She opened the hatch and jumped in, Alec landing right behind her. In a single movement, she slipped out of the saddle and landed on the ground. As Peter saw Marc disappear into the blackness, he felt a dreadful sense of foreboding, hearing the splash when Marc landed. How badly your child may be injured depends on how far she fell and the surface she landed on. Wearing only a pair of red socks, he slipped when his feet touched down and he landed hard on his back. 2.3with adverbial of place (of an object) come to rest after falling or being thrown. （东西掉下或扔出后）落下不动 the plate landed in her lap 盘子落在她的大腿上。 Example sentencesExamples Without looking up he threw a book that landed with a thud on the table in front of Evelyn. You'd need to create a diversion, by throwing a rock that lands behind them, making a noise and distracting them temporarily. I dropped my fork on the glass plate and it landed with a small ‘clank’. Forty-four gallon drums of chemicals shot more than a hundred metres high, landing up to 400 metres away. Fortunately, at that moment a drop from a high-up stalactite landed in the waiting pool beneath, making a loud splash as it landed. Suddenly this giant brick landed in front of us then we turned around and there was one behind us. She flipped a pancake from the hot plate expertly and it landed neatly on her plate of four. Some landed in the deep fat fryer, splashing oil everywhere. So it should come as no surprise that, five minutes into lunch, a giant tangle of grilled onions landed right in my lap. A rope came snaking out over the river, landing with a splash at my feet. He then grabbed my flashlight and threw it so it landed right by my purse. One of the side panels fell off, landing softly on the sandy ground. And just what did the people at the next table say when a dislodged piece of fish landed among their crockery? I was vigorously taking down notes when a paper ball landed next to me. Dara tossed her shoes on the floor and the rest of her belongings landed on the sofa. Ice falling off the trees outside, landing on the ground with a thud that makes me jump out of my seat. I felt a drop of water land on the tip of my nose with a plop, mingling with the dirty sweat already on my face. A stone from the top of the wall broke free, triggering a small landslide of pebbles, and landed with a resounding splash in the stream below. I watched helplessly as a small splash of milk issued from the jug and landed in the bowl. 2.4informal (of something unpleasant or unexpected) arrive suddenly. 〈非正式〉（令人不快或意想不到的事）突然出现 there seemed to be more problems than ever landing on her desk this week 本周似乎有比以往更多的问题突然出现在她的办公桌上。 Example sentencesExamples We're assuming you're not going to have perjured yourself, Richard, so we'll expect to hear your resignation landing on a desk soon, shall we? So, after five months of doing something I really wanted in football and a top job now landing in my lap, it wasn't to be. Will he have much influence on the bill that lands on his desk? Do you strictly say no or if the right television product were to land on your desk, would you do sitcoms again? The report will land on the desk of the Ulster Secretary and the Prime Minister on Wednesday. After we pointed out the many health-giving qualities of the brown stuff, a press release lands on our desk confirming that it is good for you. How would you react if the support you need suddenly landed in your lap? The red ink, the comments, and the occasional C minuses: who can erase the dreaded memories of marked school work landing on the desk? Being the managing partner means that all the unsolved and ad hoc problems land on my desk. The Cultural Commission's report will land on the desks of the Scottish arts world on Thursday morning. The opportunity to do that film landed in my lap. As the language of personal development lands on their business laps, managers learn the sequence of emotions and reactions associated with change. The fight of the new millennium between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis has landed in the lap of South African promoter Joe Manyathi. As application forms for the new fund began landing on desks last week, the reaction from church conservation workers was one of dismay. Through bursts of laughter he told me that the first extracts of the new biography about Jack have finally been landing on editors' desks. It's the idea of things rushing up on you suddenly, landing on you like an avalanche, hearing a distant rumble and then suddenly finding yourself surrounded by emotion. Still, I had hopes that something would change, or the next job would land in my lap as they had done so far. You know podcasting is a mainstream concept when it lands in the laps of 14-year-olds. As I'd been scrambling to create one, a fresh opportunity landed in my lap. 3land someone withinformal with object Cause someone to be in (a difficult or unwelcome situation) 〈非正式〉使处于（困难、讨厌境地） his exploits always landed him in trouble 他的大胆行动总是使他陷入麻烦。 Example sentencesExamples This ambivalence toward their own goals in life can land them in difficult situations. Emily Bell thinks the BBC may even have landed itself in hot water over its handling of the matter. It is less about the theatre production and more about the actors, their history and how it landed them in this current situation. She does not think before she opens her mouth and lands him in even more trouble. That lands you in a really difficult scientific problem. You do feel sorry for him because from all accounts he is a really decent and caring bloke and not at all a big head, but keeps landing himself in hot water. A bloody confrontation lands Shaw in jail for over a decade and decimates his family. But it's difficult to argue when traffic jams are landing us in a pickle every day. He landed himself in hot water with the club's fans last summer during a pre-season tour when he let his frustration get the better of him and made a gesture towards the crowd. This eventually leads to a complete breakdown that lands Jimmy in the hospital. She is not one to huddle up and go into a corner and that has landed her in these difficulties. Bowen is the latest in a line of old-style comedians to have landed themselves in hot water after using racially provocative language or jokes. Mr Brookes is well aware that his refusal to pay his income tax demand could land him in very hot water. She told the court on Tuesday he had no idea why his father had been arrested but knew the goods could land him in more trouble. He landed himself in hot water during a recent party after jokingly asking a woman for sex. Hyper-sensitive, he seems continually to be examining himself and putting himself in situations which are apt to land him in trouble. Federal officials cited the speech as an ‘overt act’ seeking the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, landing him in prison for three years. An accident lands Maya in a coma in the hospital, and Tamar postpones her trip until her ex wakes up. A good right-left combination from Lewis lands Tyson in all sorts of trouble. Their actions land them in one situation after another that manages to be contrived and clichéd at the same time. Synonyms bring, lead, drive, cause to be in, cause to arrive in 3.1land someone with Inflict (an unwelcome task or difficult situation) on someone. 给某人带来（不愉快的任务，困境） the mistake landed the company with a massive bill 这一差错让公司背负巨额账单。 Example sentencesExamples It is like a savings scheme but it means that the owners of the properties aren't landed with a large bill. But what has their over-investment landed them with, other than big debts? Dickinson left the field with a nasty head wound which could land Hagan with a hefty ban if he is found guilty. Inevitably this has landed Kirkland with the unwanted reputation of being injury prone. Good Friday became bad Friday for one group of Chessington residents when they were landed with £320 in parking fines. Surprisingly, Chris discovers her true self during the survival course but lands Charles with a black eye in the process. He also landed her with a bill for nearly £1, 000 after ringing chat-lines on her mobile phone. His tip-off to police landed Bailey with a five-year jail sentence when he appeared at York Crown Court. The Evening Press has learned that his history of impersonation and con tricks has landed him with prison sentences before. The stunt was one of 10 things Liam said he'd always wanted to do but it landed him with a life ban. Experts landed us with a police force which is now so warped in its outlook of its responsibilities that it's no longer a force but a service. A businessman has been left in a stew after a computer glitch landed him with 250,000 tins of lentil soup. Now my stupidity had landed me with more bruises. He has had his problems with drinking and, more importantly, getting caught, which landed him an international ban. Frustration at the loss of a telephone charger landed a man with a £700 bill for damage to a car. It is an absurdly high level of fines and costs he has been landed with. Craig was viciously beaten by a violent customer in January, which landed him with a fractured skull, both cheekbones broken and a scar near one eye. A week in hospital in France will land you with a bill for 2000. To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation. Smith has been landed with ‘extortionate’ water bills - because travellers are taking water from his supply. Synonyms burden, saddle, encumber, trouble, tax, load 4informal with object Inflict (a blow) on someone. 〈非正式〉殴打 I won the fight without landing a single punch 我一拳都没打中就赢了。 with two objects I landed him one Example sentencesExamples Jimmy's making the fight but Foster's landing the more effective blows. He screamed, landing a powerful blow directly into the man's stomach. She'd landed another few blows when he caught her wrist and twisted. Down but not out, she gives as good as she gets, and manages to land a few punches before the soldier gets away. Magee, who entered the contest unbeaten in 22 fights, began confidently, landing the more telling blows. He threw the next punch at Joey's gut, catching Joey off guard and landing another punch at Joey's face. He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid. Rocky was the aggressor throughout the fight and landed all the punishing blows, but the judges announced Wallace as the winner. In round 1, Donis landed a hard right hook that was his most significant punch of the round. They brawled near the ropes and Hopkins landed a sneaky left hook to Oscar's liver. It is possible that when the fight statistics are scrutinised that Arias, the Brazilian heavyweight champion, will have a tally of punches landed in single figures. He suddenly realized Red meant them when he landed a solid left hook to his abdomen. Pursing his lips, he landed a heavy right hook on the boy's jaw before he could dodge, sending his head snapping back forcefully. Over time, he lost a split-second, just enough to make him less capable of pulling away from blows or landing one of his tremendous counterpunches that come out of nowhere. He parried all of the soldier's blows and then landed one of his own, on the soldier's armored stomach. He landed a few successful blows before he was roughly pulled back by two sets of strong arms. The two fighters from the boxing crazy Eastern Cape began dishing heavy leather from the onset but Marali landed the most telling blows. Tyson was bleeding from cuts over both his eyes and from his nose when Lewis landed a punch that sent him sprawling on his back in Lewis' corner. Ali got off his toes for the first time in the fight and landed his most meaningful punches. Raymond, enraged at being laughed at, charged forward and tried landing the first strike. Synonyms inflict, deal, deliver, administer, deposit, dispense, give, catch, mete out Phrases how the land lies What the state of affairs is. 事情处于某种状态 let's keep it to ourselves until we see how the land lies 我们看清事态之前先对此事保密。 Example sentencesExamples He's had a hand in one long-standing magazine and one that went under, so he seemed like the perfect person to show me how the land lies in the magazine world. Let's see how the land lies after Grafton Street opens, OK? Your response counts, because it tells them, and the BBC how the land lies. You know what you're doing here, you know how the land lies. Just to see how the land lies, I approached Dave Linley, who has been given the job of looking after the spare tickets. Synonyms the facts, the details, the particulars, the picture, how things stand, the lie of the land, how the land lies, the case in the land of the living humorous Alive or awake. 〈幽默〉活着，醒着 Example sentencesExamples Well, I'm back in the land of the living again with an internet connection! Two cans of Red Bull and a cigarette later I'm back in the land of the living only to hear Norah Jones' silky croon spewing from my speakers. There's nothing like an appalling film to put you back in the land of the living. In that instance, as it is now, it was very comforting to know that I was wrong and he had been slyly enjoying his years in the land of the living. They cut him down, chucked water over his face to revive him and make sure he was still in the land of the living. She tilted his face to look at her to check for signs of life, finding thankfully that the lad was indeed still in the land of the living. Am now back in the land of the living, only to be faced with ten bazillion emails and two letters from the House of Commons (that'll be my MP then). She and Kevin were in the land of the living, and it was so very good to feel the rumble of life again. As long as my friend was firmly in the land of the living, I took her existence for granted. As I write these words, it is unclear whether he is still in the land of the living. Synonyms living, live, having life, not dead the land of Nod humorous A state of sleep. 〈幽默〉睡眠状，梦乡 Example sentencesExamples Now researchers are finding that the land of Nod may be especially difficult to reach for women. I fought off the sleep interruption and went back to the land of Nod. I left, drank my hot chocolate and so to bed with disappointed musings as I drifted off to the land of Nod. The elements that will transport some viewers into raptures will no doubt merely send others into the land of Nod, but it is well worth surrendering to the film's hypnotic spell. May dreams of the fearless left-winger escort you to the land of Nod. I want to stay where it is safe, lost in the sleepy, dreamy land of Nod. Synonyms sleep, slumber, land of nod land (or fall) on one's feet Have good luck or success, especially after risk or trial. after some ups and downs he has finally landed on his feet 经过一些曲折，他最终成功了。 Example sentencesExamples Ranieri has landed on his feet, loved and lauded in two cities. He said his son was a lucky person who always landed on his feet. Luckily for Ollie, and Man City, he has loyal supporters, and somehow always manages to land on his feet. But no, miss high and mighty, you've landed on your feet and you don't need your old dad any more, that's for sure. Here's hoping that he and Gretchen and everyone at the show land on their feet - the airwaves will be a lot poorer without them. I really fell on my feet: I replied to a flat-share advert and landed myself a double bedroom complete with en-suite bathroom for a very reasonable sum. For starters he left me after I'd supported him for six months of him being unemployed, just as I lost my job and he landed on his feet. She's very talented and she's definitely going to land on her feet. Within weeks of her arrival she landed on her feet, securing a job with West Midlands as a bus conductor. But I think, you know, he's got a lot of good years left, and he'll land on his feet. live off the land Live on whatever food one can obtain by hunting, gathering, or subsistence farming. 靠山吃山，靠水吃水 Example sentencesExamples Richard and Sarah moved to Tuscany planning to grow their own vegetables and live off the land, hoping to harvest olives to make olive oil. The soldiers learn how to catch food and live off the land. At one time Native people were more or less self-sufficient, living off the land - trapping, fishing, hunting, logging - or working for the railway company in various departments. In the century that followed, the Dutch established settlements and devised means to live off the land. They have been living off the land there ever since, joined by a slow but steady stream of family and friends whose faces now look out from the pictures dotted around the display. Often relocated to disadvantaged areas, the Ojibwa faced poverty and bare subsistence through living off the land and/or farming. For countless generations, our people lived off the land. During the early 1850s he repeatedly crossed over the mountains and disappeared for months at a time, exploring and living off the land. Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers. Enroute, Gen. Sherman's troops were cut off from other Union forces and lived off the land. the lay of the land 1The way in which the features or characteristics of an area present themselves. 1.1The current situation or state of affairs. she was beginning to see the lay of the land with her in-laws Phrasal Verbs land up Reach a place or situation; end up. 到达 I landed up in prison 我进了监狱。 Example sentencesExamples The fight got uglier when her husband and friend reached the spot and they all landed up at the police station. Somehow the bill always lands up on the rate-payers' doormats! They lost everything, including several houses, and ended up homeless for a while before landing up in the flat. So - the expelled gang members became the criminal kings of the countries they landed up in. Follow these precautions for the first few dates with anyone and you'll never land up in a sticky situation! The plot is all about the problems faced by an Indian youngster, Indrajeeth, who lands up in New York by accident. I landed up at San Francisco around noon local time and then was led to the serpentine queue where visitors to the promised land (the modern one) were lined up. Two months ago I landed up in a counselling centre in East London where I met Ash who was to be my future counsellor. What if the wind changes, and you land up somewhere that leaves you feeling unprepared? He writes and strives for reforms in society and at one point, lands up in jail. Synonyms finish up, arrive, find oneself, end up, turn up, come, go, appear Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch land and German Land. Land² nounlänt (in Germany or Austria) a state. Example sentencesExamples These hopes were fuelled by reports from the Länder regarding a significant lowering in the number of crimes involving right-wing violence. We have been in contact with every Land in Germany to ensure continuity of teacher recruitment and to foster exchanges and school links. In 1991 the new Länder accounted for 20 per cent of reunified Germany's combined labour force but less than 7 per cent of its combined GNP. Many countries - e.g. the USA and Germany - have federal constitutions with considerable powers exercised by states or Länder. The German Länder have, as it were, an organic claim to authority, and have represented their local communities for much longer. This offered the respective Länder governments the possibility of exerting the leading influence, but usually the main opposition party was able to ensure some influence for itself. Kohl insisted that these extensions would undermine the position of the German Länder. A second school highlights the distinctive role of regional governments in federal systems, however designated - states, provinces, republics, cantons, Länder. Since then, the country has consisted of 16 Länder or states, each of which has wide powers over its domestic affairs. The 16 Länder (federal states) aim to check whether individual schools have fulfilled their tasks as set down in the education standards. This has happened in the post-communist Länder (federal states) of eastern Germany. Origin German, literally ‘land’. noun.1 phr. phr.v. noun.2
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