Tropical

(adj.) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; 'tropical weather' .

(adj.) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense .

(adj.) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); 'tropical islands'; 'tropical fruit' .

(adj.) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; 'tropical year' .

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• Odd vases made by his own hand from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In this region, where the annual rainfall exceeds forty inches, and in some localities is almost tropical, the young student's atte ntion was early drawn to meteorology. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is simply impossible to imagine Edison working out the phonograph, telephone, and incandescent lamp under the tropical climes he sought. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There would have been a perpetual campaign to Americanize Australia and New Zealand, and yet another claimant for a share in tropical Africa. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He was taken to Plymouth, and from Plymouth straight to the lonely tropical island of St. Helena. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At intervals the rain would pour down in streams, followed in not many minutes by a blazing, tropical summer's sun. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• No moon was yet in the heavens, but the dark blue vault was bright with innumerable stars, large and mellow, like tropical constellations. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The country through which we passed, between these two towns, is tropical in climate and productions and rich in scenery. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The great necessity for more durable carbons became a desideratum so urgent that the tireless inventor decided to commission another explorer to search the tropical jungles of the Orient. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These specimens will prove conclusively that food sent from a tropical climate retains its freshness and delicate flavor. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.

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