The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. 太阳从东方升起,在西方落下。
Take the east road; it's the shortest way. 走东边这条路吧,这是最近的路。
He traveled east. 他向东旅行。
east
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the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
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the countries of Asia
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the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
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the direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point
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a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city
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situated in or facing or moving toward the east
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to, toward, or in the east
<adv.all> we travelled east for several miles located east of Rome
East \East\, a. 1. Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.
2. (Eccl.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
East \East\ ([=e]st), n. [OE. est, east, AS. e['a]st; akin to D. oost, oosten, OHG. [=o]stan, G. ost, osten, Icel. austr, Sw. ost, Dan. ["o]st, ["o]sten, Lith. auszra dawn, L. aurora (for ausosa), Gr. 'hw`s, "e`os, 'a`yws, Skr. ushas; cf. Skr. ush to burn, L. urere. [root]149, 288. Cf. {Aurora}, {Easter}, {Sterling}.] 1. The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
The east began kindle. --E. Everett.
2. The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.
The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. --Milton.
3. (U. S. Hist. and Geog.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.
{East by north}, {East by south}, according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 111/4[deg] to the north or south, respectively, of the point due east.
{East-northeast}, {East-southeast}, that which lies 221/2[deg] to the north or south of east, or half way between east and northeast or southeast, respectively. See Illust. of {Compass}.
East \East\, adv. Eastward.
East \East\, v. i. To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
And Germans in both east and west have accepted the inevitability of a rapid unification since the Berlin Wall opened Nov. 9.
But six months after German unity, most experts agree that many of the east's factories are in much worse shape than anyone imagined they would be.
Police arrested 22 Jewish youths who were among a crowd of about 100 that moved toward Arab east Jerusalem, police spokesman Uzi Sandori said.
The program in this city of 165,000 on the east side of San Francisco Bay also would help sick kids and subsidize poor parents for baby-sitting costs.
At Las Mercedes Airport east of the city, Somoza supporters and their families tried desperately to get on departing flights.
It went down Wednesday at Lake Managua, about six miles east of Managua.
Neither forecast proved correct. To make unification a success, Germany will need to maintain public sector transfers from west to east of at least DM100bn (Pounds 35.8bn) a year until the end of the decade.
Construction of the Shoreham plant, located 60 miles east of Manhattan, began in 1973 and was completed a decade later at a cost of more than $4 billion.
Eleven deaths involved sex slayings at a cabin 120 miles east of San Francisco.
Twenty-six aliens were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and 11 were arrested at Ontario International Airport 30 miles east of here in sweeps staged late Saturday and early Sunday, according to an INS official.
The lion's share of this increase was incurred to finance transfers to east Germany.
At the Korsnas pulp mill at Gavle on the Swedish east coast, they boast that the problem of industrial waste has almost been solved.
It hopes output from Amino will serve the domestic Polish market as well as other east and central European countries.
Firstly it does not want to, and secondly, there are difficulties of comparing prices in east Europe with those in the west. 'In principle we support the EC's efforts to liberalise trade with that part of the world,' says Mr Lever.
It said the temblor, which hit at 10:22 a.m., was centered 31 miles underground in the Pacific Ocean about 8 miles off the east coast of Chiba state, or about 29 miles east of Tokyo.
It said the temblor, which hit at 10:22 a.m., was centered 31 miles underground in the Pacific Ocean about 8 miles off the east coast of Chiba state, or about 29 miles east of Tokyo.
Hot, humid conditions dominated from the Plains east to the Atlantic Coast on Thursday, while showers and thunderstorms were scattered from the northeast parts of the Great Lakes into the middle Mississippi Valley.
The fishing restrictions, which take effect Friday and will last at least through February, apply to most trout streams east of the Rocky Mountains and a few in western Montana, the commission said Monday.
Tommy Munoz of Chicago was captured just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday by prison authorities who had staked out his cousin's house on the city's Southwest Side, about 40 miles east of the prison, Howell said.
Anyone who watches tonight's programme after seeing the recent pair in BBC2's Assignment on malaria and Aids in the far east will surely conclude that we need another Jonathan Swift to illustrate this problem.
The Enaf-Vinto metallurgical smelter complex just east of Oruro, is close to Bolivia's principal tin mines, Huanuni and Colquiri, owned by the state mining company Comibol.
Deputies blocked only northbound traffic on one street with their parked cars, leaving open a road from the east and west and another road southbound from Winston-Salem, Hodges and other witnesses said.
Many obsolete older buildings may never see another tenant, as they cannot compete with a plethora of new ones. Go east of Potters Bar or the A23, however, and such excesses disappear.
Most of the casulties occurred in the north and the east, strongholds of the Tamil rebels.
North Dakota was under a winter storm warning as snow and gusty north wind threatened the state with near blizzard conditions. Snowfall amounts were expected to range from 4 inches in the west to 10 inches in the east, the weather service said.
"The halt in killings in the north and east is a major breakthrough," Deputy Defense Minister Ranjan Wijeratne said Thursday.
The east side is predominately white, middle to upper class, the home of Sarah Lawrence College; it borders the wealthy towns of Scarsdale and Bronxville.
"Please don't execute him, please," she said at a news conference at the press center in east Beirut's Jedeideh area.
It is about 1,800 miles east of Moscow and north of Mongolia.
Regis Krebs of Beckemeyer, a town of 1,100 located 45 miles east of St. Louis, had pointed his combine toward home when he noticed the fire, which apparently was caused by a spark from the combine's muffler.