| 正面 | 4456.frontier 英 ['frʌntɪə; frʌn'tɪə]美 [frʌn'tɪr]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 谐音“大骂”n. 前沿；边界；国境adj. 边界的；开拓的n. (Frontier)人名；(法)弗龙捷 例句： 1. A "frontier-free" Europe implies a greatly increased market for all economic operators.“无国界的”欧洲对所有经营者来说都意味着一个大大扩展了的市场。 frontier 拓荒者，边远地区居民来自front,前面的，原义为前线部队，边疆。后用于美国西部大开发时期拓荒者，边远居民。 frontier (n.)c. 1400, frowntere, "front line of an army;" early 15c., fronture, "borderland, part of a country which faces another," from Old French frontiere "boundary-line of a country," also "frontier fortress; front rank of an army" (13c.), noun use of adjective frontier "facing, neighboring," from front "brow" (see front (n.)). In reference to North America, "part of the country which is at the edge of its settled regions" from 1670s. Later it was given a specific sense:What is the frontier? ... In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile. [F.J. Turner, "The Frontier in American History," 1920]" |