Dardanelles
[,dɑ:də'nelz]
解释:
(noun.) the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks.
(noun.) the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.
卡特编辑--From WordNet
例句:
- Xerxes passed into Europe, not as Darius did at the half-mile crossing of the Bosphorus, but at the Hellespont (the Dardanelles). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- We passed through the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles, and steered for a new land--a new one to us, at least--Asia. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Dardanelles to be internationalized, and Ottoman sovereignty to be recognized only in Turkish districts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Coming through the Dardanelles, we saw camel trains on shore with the glasses, but we were never close to one till we got to Smyrna. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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