英语释义

1. a border between two countries
the frontier between Canada and the U.S.

2. a stronghold on a frontier

3. a region that forms the margin of settled or developed territory
were sent on an expedition to explore the western frontier

4. the farthermost limits of knowledge or achievement in a particular subject
frontiers in immunology

5. a line of division between different or opposed things
the frontiers separating science and the humanities
— R. W. Clark

6. a new field for exploitative or developmental activity
… the brain lies before us as one of the last scientific frontiers here on earth.
— Robert Klitzman

7. a border between two countries

8. a distant area where few people live

9. the limits of knowledge in a particular field

10. the edge of the settled part of a country

11. of, living in, or situated in the frontier
frontier towns frontier families

片语

Arctic Frontiers北极边境

frontier trade[贸易] 边境贸易

Technology Frontiers技术边界法

Production Frontiers生产前沿面

efficient frontier有效边界；效率前缘

frontier orbital[物化] 前沿轨道

Theoretical Frontiers理论前沿

new frontier新边疆；新境界

Alien Frontiers外星人边疆

Sonic Frontiers加拿大前卫

Beyond Frontiers树立全球眼光

英汉例句

• 「the energy industry is clearly working at the frontiers of geology, geography and technology, 」 he told spiegel in an interview.

  英国石油公司ceo托尼·海沃德在一次采访中对德国明镜周刊的记者说，能源行业正好处于地质学、地理学和科学技术的前沿。

• the dethronement of learning is one of the most exciting intellectual frontiers we are now crossing.

  将学习行为拉下神坛，是我们正在跨越的最激动人心的知识前沿之一。

• without scale, global businesses can「t be industry leaders, they can」t remain on the frontiers of technology, and they become more vulnerable to competition.

  没有规模，全球性企业就当不成行业领袖，就无法屹立在科技的前沿，就会更缺乏竞争力。

• the research is published in the journal frontiers in evolutionary neuroscience.

  该研究发表在《进化神经系统前沿》杂志上。

• nanoscience is the science of small particles of materials and is one of the most important research frontiers in modern technology.

  纳米科学是一门研究物质细小微粒的科学，它已经成为现代科技中最重要的前沿研究领域之一。

• guarding their nation’s frontiers has traditionally been an honourable task for greeks.

  对于希腊人来说，保卫自己国家边境自古以来就是一件值得尊敬任务。

• the frontiers of geology, geography and technology

  地质学、地理学和技术学的前沿

• it has frontiers with russia in the north, georgia in the northwest, armenia in the west and and southwest, and iran in the south.

  它在北部和俄国接壤，克鲁吉亚位于它的西北面，亚美尼亚位于它的西面和西南面，伊朗在它的南面。

• the journal frontiers of neurology and neuroscience has an paper that looks at how rates of yawning change throughout our life.

  《神经学和神经科学前沿》（thejournalfrontiersofneurologyandneuroscience）上有篇文章研究人的一生中，打呵欠的时间如何变化。

• today the frontiers of finance involve anything from weather to mortality risk, from emissions to catastrophe insurance.

  而当今金融前沿涉及从气候到死亡风险，从废气排放到巨灾保险的各层面。

• science and technology: exploring nature's new frontiers

  科技：探索自然界新的前沿

• that, i think, captures well the daring, graceful spirit of the unfinished life we celebrate today; a life that inspires us and lights our way, as we sail on to the new frontiers of our own time.

  我认为，这段话确切地再现了我们今日所庆祝的依然延续的生命中那种无畏而高尚的精神，这一生命激励着我们，照亮我们的前进道路，伴随着我们驶向我们这个时代的新前沿。

• for example, he had unwittingly carried one of his dr who scripts to the very frontiers of late-1970s cosmology.

  例如，他曾经一不小心把某一集drwho的脚本带到了1970年代末宇宙学发展的最前沿。

• in the february frontiers in ecology and the environment, he and christian messier argue that plantations need not become biodiversity deserts.

  在二月的生态环境学前沿杂志中，他和christianmessier论述种植业不能成为生物多样性的沙漠。

• only the senate at this time can proclaim anybody a king, so the senate would sometimes would have client kings on the different--the edge of frontiers of their control.

  当时只有元老院可以宣布谁为王，所以元老院常常在各个边境地区,任命代理王。

• the study appears june 8th in the journal frontiers in ecology and the environment.

  这项研究发表在6月8号出版的《生态和环境科学前沿》杂志上。

• a large selection of her writing was gathered together in 「rosabeth moss kanter on the frontiers of change」 (harvard business school press, 1997).

  她的大部分着作被收集在1997年由哈佛商学院出版社出版的「变革前沿的罗莎贝丝?莫斯?坎特」中。

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