Calcutta

例句:

• A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes and even render it mortal, as in the Black Hole at Calcutta. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the mint of Calcutta, an ounce of fine gold is supposed to be worth fifteen ounces of fine silver, in the same manner as in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Scape, ruined, honest, and broken-hearted at sixty-five years of age, went out to Calcutta to wind up the affairs of the house. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was the Black Hole of Calcutta on a small scale. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The idea of it grew in the mind of young Colt when he left his father’s silk mill and shipped as a boy sailor in the ship Carlo, bound from Boston to Calcutta. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What goods could bear the expense of land-carriage between London and Calcutta? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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