earthbound

adj.

1. （只在）地球上的，陆地的，地面上的
   unable to leave the surface of the earth
   1. birds and their earthbound predators
      鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
2. 世俗的；物质世界的；缺乏想象力的
   not spiritual or having much imagination

1. ADJ 不能离开地面的；陆地上的；地面上的
   If something is earthbound, it is unable to fly, or is on the ground rather than in the air or in space.
   1. ...earthbound telescopes...
      地面望远镜
   2. The earthbound larvae from which they develop are less pretty, but just as predatory.
      幼虫生活在地面上，不像成虫后那么美丽，但是同样会捕食。
2. ADJ-GRADED 缺乏想象力的
   If you describe someone or something as earthbound, you mean that they do not have very much imagination.
   1. ...the daughter of a stolid, earthbound salesman and a wild actress.
      冷漠实际的推销员和生活放荡的女演员所生的女儿

1. The earthbound larvae from which they develop are less pretty, but just as predatory.
   幼虫生活在地面上，不像成虫后那么美丽，但是同样会捕食。
2. The earthbound life required no grocery stores, only time gathering edible plants and berries.
   靠土地吃饭的生活不需要杂货店，只需要有时间采集可以食用的植物和浆果。
3. Still, there are more earthbound ways to get into the art-buying game& at auctions, art fairs, end-of-year student shows and some big open-studio events.
   不过，购买艺术品还有很多更普通的方法&拍卖会、艺术博览会、年终学生作品展以及一些大型工作室开放日活动。
4. As metaphors go, cloud computing sounds nice but is misleading. Clouds are in the sky; server farms are decidedly earthbound.
   云在天上飘，而组成云计算的服务器网络显然是在地面上。
5. You see, unlike our clunky earthbound forms of construction.
   你看，比起地球上使用的笨拙建筑方式。
6. In the meantime, you're an earthbound emanation.
   现在呢，你就是一个一般的。
7. Having been earthbound for so long you have acquired a strong affinity with Mother Earth, which is why so many of you chosen to stay with her.
   已经与地球纠葛了这么久时间使得你们已经获得了一种与地球母亲的强烈吸引力，这也是为何你们中的这么多人选择了继续伴随她。
8. It orbits the sun behind the Earth and in theory should be able to spot things that Earthbound telescopes and even the orbiting Hubble telescope cannot.
   开普勒跟随地球围绕太阳运转，从理论上来讲它可以发现地面天文望远镜甚至于哈勃望远镜所不能发现的东西。
9. Earthbound prices are returning many markets to "fair value", defined as the long-run average ratio of house prices to disposable income and to rents.
   低房价正使许多市场回归“公允价值”，公允价值是以房价与收入和租金的长期平均比值衡量。
10. Yet scientists hope to bring the power that emblazons the sun, fusion, to earthbound reactors.
    然而，科学家们很赞同这种能和太阳同样的聚变反应堆。
11. Michael Mumma, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, leads the only Earthbound team still gathering the sort of data in which Martian methane has been seen.
    国家航空航天局位于马里兰州的达德太空飞行中心的MichaelMumma，仍然带领着他的务实的团队汇集了已经观测到的火星甲烷的数据。
12. On the whole it was an uninspired and earthbound performance.
    总的来说，这是场没有激情的平淡的演出。
13. Newton took the principles of motion and of gravitation as deduced from observations of earthbound objects and extended them to the motions of the earth and of the planets around the sun.
    牛顿观察物体往地上落，演绎出运动原则和引力原则，并将这些原则扩展到地球的运动和环绕太阳运转的行星的运动。
14. The space shuttle remained earthbound because of a technical fault.
    由于技术错误，航天飞机仍不能离地。
15. Earthbound spirits, my grandmother called them.
    束缚的灵魂，我的祖母这么称他们。
16. Indeed the structures of flight vehicles are very flexible when compared with bridges, buildings, and earthbound machines.
    实际上，与桥梁、建筑和地面上的机器相比，飞行器结构是非常灵活的。
17. They'll be earthbound forever.
    他们将永远成为被束缚的鬼魂。
18. From the perspective of earthbound astronomers, Saturn's rings will be edge-on.
    从地面天文学家的观点看来，土星的光环将以侧边缘相见。
19. He practised the art of earthbound realism.
    他实践生根于土壤的现实主义艺术。
20. I'm absolutely sure that Brian is still earthbound.
    我有绝对的肯定布莱恩还在这里。
21. Going and Coming-a methodology of ethnography beyond of Earthbound Research It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines.
    这个集团没有地区上的边界，跨越人种和种族的区分以及政党的界限。
22. No, these aren't deleted scenes from sci-fi epic Avatar-these spectacular images show mesmerising phosphorescent patterns swirling through a forest that are all produced by earthbound insects.
    这些精美森林照片显示梦幻般的荧光散布在森林之中，但这些壮观美丽的图像并不是科幻电影《阿凡达》中的删节片段，画面中的荧光物质居然是由萤火虫释放的。
23. So a tea ceremony in the bustling, earthbound part of Shanghai across the river sounded just the thing.
    所以，一个在河对岸的茶道仪式，位于繁华却更接近地面的上海街区，听起来是一个很不错的主意。
24. The analysis on earthbound methods and circulating of electric-net
    电网接地方式与运行分析
25. Whereas, basic reasons of crimes with floating population are the loss of earthbound order existing in floating population in urban and the loss of the expectancy of surviving and developing of floating population.
    流动人口犯罪的基础性原因是存在于流动人口群体中的乡土秩序在城市中的失落，以及由此而产生的流动人口生存与发展预期的落空。
26. In the relative and remote structure that regards a family as core, the dissertation discusses father-clan relative relationship, mother-clan relative relationship, function of earthbound and administration, and then deeply understand constitution principle of the Tujia basic society.
    分析了坡脚土家族以家庭为核心的差序格局中，父系亲属关系，母系亲戚关系，地缘与行政关系的功能，从而深化理解土家族基层社会的构成原则。
27. Rediscovery about Earthbound China
    新乡土建筑乡土中国的再发现

adj

1. confined to the earth

2. lacking wit or imagination
   1. a pedestrian movie plot

   Synonym:    pedestrianprosaicprosy