(noun.) an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.
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双语例句
More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been assured, is a common price of common labour. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Little Georgy went up and looked at the Shetland pony. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
We will, if you can bear a sea-voyage, go to the Isles--the Hebrides, the Shetland, the Orkney Islands. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
This summer, Caroline, Mrs. Pryor and I go out into the North Atlantic, beyond the Shetland, perhaps to the Faroe Isles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.