2012_03_25 Tellurian adj.居民的特徵 n. An inhabitant of the earth.

Word of the Day for Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tellurian \te-LOOR-ee-uhn\, adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants.
noun:
1. An inhabitant of the earth.
We must keep in mind that we are, or should I say have become, hybrid personae, part tellurian, and part extraterrestrial.
 -- Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, Universe 3
What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations…
 -- James Joyce, Ulysses
Tellurian was first used by Thomas DeQuincy in 1846, even though it has classical Latin roots literally meaning "one of the earth."
地球上的\ TE-LOOR-EE-UHN\，形容詞：

1。或地球或其居民的特徵。

名詞：
1。一個地球居民。

我們必須牢記，我們是，或者我應該說已經成為混合對人，地球上的部分，及部分外星。
- 羅伯特·西爾弗伯格和Karen哈伯宇宙3

什麼特殊的親和力出現在他面前，月亮和女人之間存在嗎？她前，倖存的地球上的連續幾代人的古代...
- 詹姆斯·喬伊斯，“尤利西斯”

地球上的第一次托馬斯DeQuincy使用於1846年，儘管它有經典的字面意思是拉丁詞根“一個地球。”

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