Space

(noun.) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; 'they tested his ability to locate objects in space'; 'the boundless regions of the infinite'.

(noun.) a blank area; 'write your name in the space provided'.

(noun.) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; 'he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet'.

(noun.) one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; 'the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E'.

(noun.) an area reserved for some particular purpose; 'the laboratory's floor space'.

(noun.) an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); 'the architect left space in front of the building'; 'they stopped at an open space in the jungle'; 'the space between his teeth'.

(verb.) place at intervals; 'Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates'.

校对:劳伦斯

• We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Two methods of space telegraphy at sea. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The opening for putting in the ice, shown just under the pulley in the cut, has two doors with a space between; each door a foot thick. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Asking the operator the best direction, he pointed west, and noticing a rabbit in a clear space in the sage bushes, I said, 'There is one now. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The entire community surrounded us, leaving a clear space about one hundred feet in diameter for our battle. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The Morse telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, is given in Figure 218. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There were long spaces of silence between their words. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Open heat spaces were left between the two flues. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Another important plant of this period deserves special mention, as it was the pioneer in the lighting of large spaces by incandescent lamps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• If, however, the tube is held, during the rotation of the disk, over the inner row of unequally spaced holes, the musical tone disappears, and a series of noises take its place. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I looked back and saw the three cars all climbing, spaced by the interval of their dust. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• There were volumes of innuendo in the way the eventually was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The printed work is in full view, the line spacing may be varied to any fractional adjustment, and the action is quite free from noise. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It had a weight for running the frame, letter and line spacing keys, paper feeding devices, line signal bell, and carbon tissue. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

整理:默尔