Euphrates
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解释:
(noun.) a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia.
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例句:
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This lower country of the Euphrates-Tigris valleys had little or no stone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- De Candolle asserts that it is only in the Euphrates-Tigris district that wheat has ever been found growing wild. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Among the mud heaps of the Euphrates-Tigris valley the record of that vast period of history, that first half of the Age of Cultivation, is buried. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They are also still used on the Euphrates, and on the Towy in South Wales. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He crossed the Euphrates, expecting to find in Persia another Hellenized kingdom like Pontus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Inflated skins may have preceded the coracle, and are still used on the Euphrates and upper Ganges. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Then when Necho, after pushing as far as the Euphrates, fell before Nebuchadnezzar II, Judah fell with him (604 B.C.). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Sassanids repeatedly carried war into the Byzantine Empire, and held the line of the Euphrates steadfastly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Romans had been held at the Euphrates by an array of mounted archers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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