Nile
[naɪl]
解释:
(noun.) the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization.
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解释:
(n.) The great river of Egypt.
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例句:
- Really, it's like one of the reaches of the Nile--as one imagines the Nile. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The art of rowing can first be discerned upon the Nile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Before midnight the battle of the Nile was over, and Napoleon's fleet was destroyed. 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.
- The Great Pyramid put it into his head to go up the Nile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He has sewn up ever so many odalisques in sacks and tilted them into the Nile. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There are pre-dynastic Neolithic Egyptian representations of Nile ships of a fair size, capable of carrying elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He had destroyed Tyre; in Egypt, at one of the mouths of the Nile, he now founded a new city, Alexandria, to replace that ancient centre of trade. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The African forests were denser then, and spread eastward and northward from the Upper Nile. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I observed him for about ten minutes, and perceived that he was exceedingly taken with this dusk and portly Venus of the Nile. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Once one of the fruits of the Nile, now no longer growing there. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The crooked and pointed stick with which the Egyptian turned the sands of the Nile has slowly grown to be the finished plough that is now driven through the sod by steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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