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 Cornwall ['kɔ:nwɔ:l]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 康沃耳郡

  1. After much discussion about holidays abroad we ended up in Cornwall.
    我们反覆商量到国外度假的事, 最後决定去康沃尔.
  2. He lives in retirement in Cornwall.
    他在康沃尔郡过退休生活.


cornwall
[ noun ]
a hilly county in southwestern England
<noun.location>


  1. Stella Martyn, a widow, is visited in Cornwall by her daughter Cherry and her new son-in-law, Evan Davies, a talented painter.
  2. Bus workers in Cornwall have voted for the third successive time to strike over pay.
  3. John Normington keeps his Albany down to a level of intense decency, and Owen Teale plays the bastard brother Edmund with expansive relish, while Simon Dormandy taps an authentic, even psychopathic vein for his horrifying Cornwall.
  4. But there are problems. So far in Cornwall, the Tab has appointed six licensed providers and some 90 bodies have applied to become approved trainers.
  5. Even in Cornwall, the resentment has not led to any resurgence of the proto-nationalist movement. Yet there is something in the air.
  6. The uranium-bearing granite country of Devon and Cornwall has been known for some time as a hot spot, as is similar terrain in New Hampshire and Sweden.
  7. Domtar Inc. said it established a joint venture concern with Pittsburgh-based Koppers Co. that will build a plant in Cornwall, Ontario, to produce phenolic building insulation with high thermal value.
  8. Tamsin Thomas, who was in charge of 10 of the 20 beacons in Cornwall, said the Lizard villagers had been celebrating all day, as they have done every anniversary for the past four centuries.
  9. It is based on how the language was spelled in medieval literature and draws from the many Cornish words that oldtimers from West Cornwall mixed into their English conversation and from the huge numbers of Cornish place names that still exist.
  10. (Pronounced TICKee-doo, its literal meaning is "beautiful little thing of God.") Tristan is a third-generation Cornish speaker, one of the few in Cornwall.
  11. In 1991, the turnover at Trewince was about Pounds 190,000, with only a very small profit. Unlike many families, the Heywoods had no dreams of leaving their comfortable suburban lives in Hertfordshire and fleeing to Cornwall.
  12. The cable touches ground in North America at Tuckerton, N.J.; in the United Kingdom at Widemouth in North Cornwall; and in France at Penmarch in Brittany.
  13. Another trans-Atlantic traveler, a northern oriole, arrived in the southwest English county of Cornwall Tuesday and an American robin has been spotted on the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England.
  14. It also provides simulator training for commercial and military helicopters, and operates a shuttle service between Penzance, Cornwall, and the Scilly Isles.
  15. TALK to any fisherman in Cornwall and he will tell you a tale of gloom and doom about the present, the future and, indeed, the past of the industry. That is, if he will talk to you.
  16. "If we're successful and move to Great Britain I'll twist arms to shoot in Cornwall.
  17. As then, the first fire was lit at Kynance, a headland near Lizard village in the southwest tip of Cornwall, where local people say the Armada was first sighted sailing up the English Channel in 1588.
  18. "It's time to bury the hatchet," said the man who organized bonfires across England to copy the warning of the Armada given 400 years ago, and Spain's ambassador drove to Cornwall to light the first one Tuesday night.
  19. When the town of Dorchester in southwestern England asked to buy land adjoining the prince's Duchy of Cornwall estate to house 8,000 to 10,000 people, Charles decided not to sell but to oversee the building himself.
  20. Next week we have Betjeman, paired with his holiday area in Cornwall, less characteristic than the London suburbs. But this week, Housman, whose verse almost sprouts from his young days among the Shropshire lads.
  21. He lived for many years at Broad Chalke near Salisbury and then in Cornwall where sailing was one of his chief recreations.
  22. In the south-west, especially Cornwall, where much of their effort will be directed they will also concentrate on unemployment. All three parties are cautious about their prospects.
  23. Somerset has formed an economic partnership, and Devon and Cornwall is being promoted by the Westcountry Development Corporation. Behind these initiatives lies a common concern at the lack of a regional development organisation.
  24. ECC Group, Cornwall, England, is a producer of white pigments with annual sales of about $1.6 billion.
  25. ECC International Europe is to shed 230 jobs at its china clay operations in Cornwall and Devon.
  26. Punters, prepared to pay up to Pounds 25 for a seat, arrive from as far afield as Scotland and Cornwall.
  27. About Pounds 10. Castang of Looe, Cornwall (0503-220359), Howard & Hardman of Chipping Norton 0608-641850.
  28. Crowds are drawn to Cornwall by the land's haunting loneliness.
  29. Tin is as linked with Cornwall as whisky with Scotland or shipbuilding with Tyneside.
  30. The complex, he found, generated Pounds 52Im a year into the local economy of Devon and Cornwall, some 5 per cent of total income and 30 per cent of the Plymouth area's.
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