zone

英 [z??n] 美[zon]

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復數(shù):?zones;第三人稱單數(shù):?zones;過去式:?zoned;過去分詞:?zoned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?zoning;

zone 地區(qū)

來自拉丁語zone,地理分布帶，來自PIE*yos,帶子，腰帶，詞源同zoster.

zone (n.): late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt, the girdle worn by women at the hips," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yos- "to gird" (cognates: Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle"). The 10c. Anglo-Saxon treatise on astronomy translates Latin quinque zonas as fyf gyrdlas.

Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927.
zone (v.): 1760, "mark with zones," from zone (n.). Land use planning sense is from 1916. Related: Zoned; zoning.

1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.: 設立了安全區(qū)以防止游擊隊員的滲入。

2. They fell into that twilight zone between military personnel and civilian employees.: 他們成了軍隊人員與平民雇員之間身份界定不清的人。

3. The area could be turned into a demilitarized zone.: 該地區(qū)可能會成為非軍事區(qū)。

4. Many people have stayed behind in the potential war zone.: 許多人留在了可能會淪為交戰(zhàn)區(qū)的地方。