Medina and Mecca were now only of importance as pilgrimage centres, to which the faithful turned to pray. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Nalanda and Taxilla seem to have been considerable educational centres as early as the opening of the schools of Athens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Let him go to centres of culture and civilization. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
These new industrial centres were at first without schools, without churches. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Of course, this system was intended to be applied in every part of a district to be supplied with current, separate sets of feeders running out from the station to the various centres. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
It is evident that there must have been plenty of religious discussion during the pilgrimage fairs at Mecca and the like centres. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I know that all your devotion centres in this room, and that nothing to the last will ever tempt you away from the duties you discharge here. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
The total length of the bridge is 910 feet between the centres of the anchorage piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
It was as if his centres of feeling were drying up. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Oxford and Cambridge, those once starry centres, were still recovering but slowly from the intellectual ebb of the later eighteenth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
And it was in the original centres of civilization that this antagonism was most completely developed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
They were assembled at the most convenient railroad centres in their respective congressional districts. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Crawley, in _The Tree of Life_, has called attention to other centres of impulse and emotion, and particularly to sex as a source of deep excitement. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the fixed stars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
You live at some distance, sir, from the gigantic centres of scientific activity--London and Paris. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.