Fir

(noun.) any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas.

(noun.) nonresinous wood of a fir tree.

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• The original chewing gum was spruce gum, the exudation of the cut branches of the spruce or fir tree. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I left it behind me, opened a little gate in a ring fence, and found myself in a plantation of fir-trees. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He went through the long grass to a clump of young fir-trees, that were no higher than a man. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The sexagesimal method of dividing the circle and its parts was, as we have seen in the fir st chapter, of Babylonian origin. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Galileo, to whom the advance in exact science is so largely indebted, must also be credited with the fir st apparatus for the measurement of temperatures. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The sand and heath and the fir-trees are the only objects I can discover, in all this large place, to remind me of Limmeridge. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Duffy was certain that the girl had passed him in the fir-plantation, not walking, but RUNNING, in the direction of the sea-shore. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I'll hang about in the fir plantation, and wait till you pick me up. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The oak, fir, hemlock and sumach are the most familiar of the many trees from which tannin is obtained for this purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He pointed, as he spoke, to the fir-plantation which led to the Shivering Sand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• When one speaks of conifers in the Mesozoic the reader must not think of the pines and firs that clothe the high mountain slopes of our time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The first place in which I can now see myself again plainly is the plantation of firs. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Further ahead were dimly visible an irregular dwelling-house, garden, and outbuildings, backed by a clump of firs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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