Alexandria
[,ælig'zɑ:ndriə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt.
(noun.) a town in Louisiana on the Red River.
手打:利蒂希娅--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- Something has already been said of the early astronomers and mathematicians of Alexandria . 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I can recommend them, for I have them especially prepared by Ionides, of Alexandria. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The vision of another world is ascribed to Er, the son of Armenius, who is said by Clement of Alexandria to have been Zoroaster. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Arius, for example, is accused of heretical opposition because he was not appointed Bishop of Alexandria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will be found worth the visit. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- During the night, General Banks continued his retrograde movement to Grand Ecore, and thence to Alexandria, which he reached on the 27th of April. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- No attempt seems to have been made at Alexandria to print anything at all. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He wrote himself a history of Alexander's campaigns, and instituted the famous library of Alexandria. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He collected vast numbers of manuscripts, had strange animals brought from distant land s to Alexandria, and otherwise promoted scientific research. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Well, uncle, and what did you do after Alexandria? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Alexandria, however, for her town affairs, and subject to the divine overlordship of Pharaoh, had a constitution of the Greek city type. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the time of Julius C?sar the larger of the famous libraries of Alexandria, containing, i t is computed, some 490,000 rolls, caught fire from ships burning in the harbor, and perished. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Of course, at that time, there was no canal, and no Suez; but I managed somehow to get across the isthmus to Alexandria. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But Rome never produced a very considerable industrial population, and her warehouses never rivalled those of Alexandria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Alexandria was too much like a European city to be novel, and we soon tired of it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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