Span

(noun.) the distance or interval between two points.

(noun.) a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches).

(noun.) the complete duration of something; 'the job was finished in the span of an hour'.

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• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The span is made of either hard wood or ivory. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Before that time, a span in a bridge of 100 feet was considered remarkably long. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The difference between them is largely one of time-span, influencing the directness of the connection of means and ends. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The bridges are of a single span--a single arch--of cut stone, without a support, and paved on top with flags of lava and ornamental pebblework. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The bridge, 800 feet long, is a single span, supported by four enormous cables of wire stretching from the Canadian cliff to the opposite United States cliff. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Its span is 220 feet, the height of the roadway above the bed of the stream is 100 feet, and the width of the structure is 20 feet 4 inches. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• His little form and tiny lineaments encaged the embryo of the world-spanning mind of man. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I look out at some early hour of the day, and see a fine, perfect rainbow, bright with promise, gloriously spanning the beclouded welkin of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Joseph works on it for two years and makes it two spans too short. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On the 23d Hancock's corps was moved to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna River just west of where the Fredericksburg Railroad crosses. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The two main spans are 1,710 feet, and these both give a clear headway for navigation of 150 feet height. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The flanges are sunk flush into the top of the rail; thus the pocket iron spans the interstices between the rails. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Education, and education alone, spans the gap. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There are three great spans, the central one of which has a length of about 520 feet, and the others a few feet less. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• What is the link that spans the intervening centuries? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mary Chivers's mighty feats of athleticism could not have been performed with the twenty-inch waist that May Archer's azure sash so easily spanned. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is supposed that greater rigidity is obtained by this means than by the suspension, and, like the suspension, great widths may be spanned without an under supporting frame work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It helps us to realize the shortness of all human history to see so many generations spanned by the endurance of one single tree. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Soon the flames had spanned the road to the south and cut off Canler's return. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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