Expanse

(noun.) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky.

爱德温录入

• As it turned out, however, morning found me speeding over a vast expanse of dead sea bottom after nearly six hours of continuous flight at high speed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• To an eye above them their two faces would have appeared amid the expanse like two pearls on a table of ebony. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He was a brown spot in the midst of an expanse of olive-green gorse, and nothing more. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The east was yet rosy with the dawn, and the great expanse of ocean slept below them in serene calm. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Check number one, said Holmes, looking gloomily over the rolling expanse of the moor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• To an observer whose view is not obstructed, any part of the earth presents itself as a circular and horizontal expanse, on the circumference of which the heavens appear to rest. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:莱斯利