讀【荒漠甘泉】每天認一英文單字→(03/24)Country(地方)

筆者：潘光祚(落伍者)

讀【荒漠甘泉】每天認一英文單字→(03/24)Country(地方)

★0324 引用經文→創世記33:9,11

9 雅各說、耶和華我祖亞伯拉罕的　神、我父親以撒的　神阿、你曾對我說、回你本地本族去、我要厚待你。
Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'

11 求你救我脫離我哥哥以掃的手、因為我怕他來殺我、連妻子帶兒女一同殺了。
Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.

★Country(地方)：解

n.（名詞 noun）
1. 【地】國土,國,國家,本國,祖國,故國
2. 【地】故鄉,故土,家鄉
例：
So many countries, so many customs. 【諺】一國有一國的風俗(異國異風,異鄉異俗)
Happy is the country that has no history. 【諺】無史之邦幸福國
love of one's country 對祖國的熱愛
leave the country 離開祖國,出國,去國(go abroad)
My [Our] country , right or wrong! 無論對與不對,祖國第一!(一種盲目的愛國主義).

3. 【人】全國人民,全國選民
4. 【地】地區,區域,地帶
5. 【海】【地】海域
6. 【海軍】【地】軍官艦室
7. 【地】領域;興趣範圍;範圍;方面
8. 【地】鄉村,鄉下,郊外(cf. pastoral, rural a.)
9. 【樂】【事】鄉村音樂(= country music)
10. 【事】鄉村的,地方的;農家製作的,手工製作的;粗野的,粗魯的
11. 【樂】【事】鄉村音樂的
12. 【英•口】【地】(板球)外野(= outfield)
13. 【地】(賽馬場之)遠離看台的跑道
14. 【律】【人】陪審團(= jury)
1. 穿越田野;(賽跑等)越野的
2. 【英】(解散議會)舉行大選,訴諸國民
3. 遠離首都[海岸]
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經文→Viewing References Part 1 [1-10 in 173 refs]:

Ge 12:1
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Ge 14:7
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

Ge 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Ge 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Ge 24:4
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

Ge 24:62
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.

Ge 25:6
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

Ge 29:26
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Ge 30:25
And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Ge 32:3
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.