Geography

(noun.) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation.

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• A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I thought I was rather good at geography, but I never heard of the Island of Melnos before. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The science and description of the world on which we live are called respectively Geology and Geography. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They had no knowledge of geography beyond the range of the Mediterranean basin and the frontiers of Persia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The classic definition of geography as an account of the earth as the home of man expresses the educational reality. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Geography, as often taught, illustrates the former; mathematics, beyond the rudiments of figuring, the latter. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Geography and history are the two great school resources for bringing about the enlargement of the significance of a direct personal experience. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In one field of knowledge particularly we might have expected the Romans to have been alert and enterprising, and that was geography. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Geography, of course, has its educative influence in a counterpart connection of natural facts with social events and their consequences. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Geography is a topic that originally appeals to imagination--even to the romantic imagination. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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