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单词 frontier
释义
frontier
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfrʌn.tɪər//frʌnˈtɪər/us
/frʌnˈtɪr/
C2[C]
aborderbetween twocountries:
国境，边境
Some of the frontierbetweenGermany and Polandfollowsthecourseof theriverOder.德国与波兰的部分边界是沿奥德河划分的。
Nepal has frontierswithbothIndiaandChina.尼泊尔与中国和印度都接壤。
Theylivedin atownclosetothefrontier.他们居住在一个离边界很近的城镇。
[S]
thewesternUS wheresettlersbegantomovetolivein the 19thcentury:
（十九世纪时定居者开始搬入并居住的美国西部）前沿地带
The HomesteadActof 1862 gavefreelandtopioneerswhosettledthe frontier.1862年的《宅地法》免费把土地给予到西部前沿地区定居的先驱者。
More examples
  • The frontier ispatrolledbyborderguards.
  • At the frontier, there werepeoplepesteringtouristsforcigarettes,foodoralcohol.
  • Twoarmedmen werecaughttryingtocrossthe frontier atnight.
  • Airpollutionis norespecterofnationalfrontiers.
  • Thepresidentpledgedtorespecttheexistingfrontiers between the twocountries.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Territorial boundaries
  • border
  • bound
  • boundary
  • bourne
  • checkpoint
  • hard border
  • no-man's-land
  • passport control
  • state line
  • the Iron Curtain
  • the Mason-Dixon Line
  • transboundary

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Towns & regions: parts of countries

Idiom

the frontiers ofsomething
(Definition offrontierfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

frontier| American Dictionary

frontier
noun[C]
us
/frʌnˈtɪər/
aborderbetween twocountries, or (esp. in the past in the US) aborderbetweendevelopedlandwherewhitepeopleliveandlandwhereIndiansliveorlandthat iswild:
It was amovieabout thehardshipsof frontierlifein thenorthwest.
fig.A frontier is also aborderbetween what isknownand what is notknown:
the frontiers ofknowledge
(Definition offrontierfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffrontier

frontier
However, this particularfrontierhas been well mined, and large parts of this book tread well-worn paths.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Technical inefficiency is the deviation of an individual vessel's production from this best-practicefrontier, and hence is a measure of relative technical efficiency.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Violation of this assumption will also affect the productionfrontierif the counties that define thefrontierdo not have sufficient standing timber.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The book provides no glimpse of the presence of any entity other than small farmers in thefrontier.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The body had its "defensive forces" (wei qi) to guard its frontiers; those forces were bound to fail, though, when weakened by corruption from within.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The most recent paper [5] demonstrates that the acceleration of electrons can be at the high energyfrontier[5, 6].
From theCambridge English Corpus
The east has a longer history of settlement and is more urbanized than the west, which is somewhat of afrontierzone.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But then, this also refers to our frontiers as a whole.
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In this way the frontiers of the feasible regions of the mechanism space were misrepresented.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In a society gifted at generalisation, endowed with powerful ^ centralizing strategies, the historian moves in the direction of the frontiers of great regions already exploited.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thisfrontierwill not result from a few counties which may have abnormally high output for their given input endowments.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Secondly, thefrontiermethod is carried out mainly on the semantic domains of a program; the method pays little attention to the program text itself.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Once land conservation policies meet the agriculturalfrontier, they have two opposing effects on the economy's aggregate rents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That's exactly why those who are working at thefrontierof the subject should know some history of economic thought.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Evidently, the events across the border were reviving dormant resentments throughout the westernfrontierlands.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithfrontier

frontier

These are words often used in combination withfrontier.

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agricultural frontier
Once land conservation policies meet the agricultural frontier, they have two opposing effects on the economy's aggregate rents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
frontier region
Development of afrontierregionwhere all the land is initially in the public domain has often been encourged through the granting of private land titles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
frontier town
She identifies the city as one which had simultaneously a 'capital' and a 'frontiertown' status.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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