Greenland

(noun.) the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark.

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• In this summer weather, it was hot as Africa; as in winterit was always cold as Greenland. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Over these northern areas there spread and receded and spread again a great ice cap such as covers central Greenland to-day (see Map, on page 77). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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