"theres a frame house beyond this, and beyond the house nothing but the foothills and the bare stone outcrop and the cyanide plant a couple of miles on."とは 意味・読み方・使い方

We live in a tenement-house, and are separated from our neighbours by a single partition-wall―and there is only a single partition-wall between us and our neighbours.

a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

We dig a particular site only if we find a fossil of high academic value in a sedimentary layer and if there is a possibility that more fossils may be found in the same layer.

a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.

It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.

the succession of stages through which a newly-uplifted land mass must pass before it is worn down to a peneplain or a surface near sea level, called erosion cycle

If a high hill stood between A and B, it was important to decide whether the line should climb over it, pierce it with a tunnel, or make a detour to avoid it.

a nebula that was once thought to be a star with its planets but is now thought to be a very hot star surrounded by an expanding envelope of ionized gases that emit a fluorescent glow because of intense radiation from the star

a scale in which the tone between the second and the third note, the fifth and the sixth note and the seventh and the eighth note is a semitone, and between the sixth and the seventh note is one tone and a semitone

It came in a handsome wooden box and contained a rack for test tubes, glass bottles of powerful powders, a little packet of sensitive paper (litmus, I think), a glass rod, the manual and suitably exciting poison labels.

This is a bulky volume of 2,000 pages, and it is no easy matter to read it through [and one can't run through it in a short time].

According to the new definition, a planet is a celestial body that (1) is in orbit around the Sun, (2) is heavy enough to maintain a round shape by self-gravity, and (3) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.

a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match)

Usually, it is an exciting festival with two floats bumping into each other, but only one of the four floats survived the tsunami.

A Japanese woman died during her descent from the summit of Mount Everest (8,848 meters).

The most famous Southern Sky Column was recently renamed Avatar Hallelujah Mountain after the Hallelujah Mountains in the hit movie “Avatar.”

Fukui Kotaro, a researcher at the museum, said, "In the Tateyama mountain range, there are other snowy gorges that might also have glaciers underneath."

He put up a good fight for the sake of environmentalists by his fervent speech that the Shirakami Range should be protected from disruption.

The Ship Island region was as woody and tenantless as ever.

In the mountains, I'm always trying to imagine every worst-case scenario and to think of ways to avoid such scenarios.

Many of the statues are about 3.5 meters tall and weigh about 20 tons and some are almost 10 meters tall.

the roof of the world

The tower with a spire on top will be 541 meters high, much taller than the collapsed twin towers.

The Lonely Mountain was once the site of the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor but now belongs to the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch).

In 1917, the U.S. government named the mountain Mount McKinley after William McKinley, the 25th president of the U.S.

If proper training methods are used in the facility, the same effects are expected as those produced by actually training in the highlands.

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

The grass was left long and weedy in the slate walk, and very often he wasn't cutting the grass on the other side of the hedge by the road at all.