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[N-COUNT 可数名词]边界;边境 A
frontier is a border between two countries.
It wasn't difficult then to cross the frontier.
那时穿越边境并不困难。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用border
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]西部边疆,边远地区(指 20 世纪前美国西部欧洲移民尚未定居的部分) When you are talking about the western part of America before the twentieth century, you use
frontier to refer to the area beyond the part settled by Europeans.
...a far-flung outpost on the frontier.
远驻西部边疆的前哨
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指知识的)前沿,尖端,新领域 The frontiers of something, especially knowledge, are the limits to which it extends.
...pushing back the frontiers of science.
推进科学前沿
...technological frontiers.
技术尖端