oases
n. (沙漠中的)綠洲( oasis的名詞複數 ); (困苦中)令人快慰的地方(或時刻); 樂土; 樂事
An oasis is a small area in a desert where water and plants are found.
You can refer to a pleasant place or situation as an oasis when it is surrounded by unpleasant ones.
The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
在開羅不斷擴張的都市版圖內,這些被悉心照料的花園成了一片世外桃源。
There was a hundred miles between the two oases.
這兩片綠洲間有一百英里.
Where underground water comes to the surface, there are oases.
地下水流到地表的地方, 就成為了綠洲.
The road went through several oases in the desert.
這條路透過沙漠中的幾片綠洲.
Tarim Basin is desert surrounded by oases.
塔里木盆地是一片綠洲包圍的沙漠.
In the lives of teachers there are teaching - days , teaching - hours like islands, or oases, amid turbulent seas.
在教師們的生活中,教學生涯中的某幾天, 甚或某幾個小時就如同波浪湧動的大海中的小島或綠洲一般.