Calcutta
[kæl'kʌtə]
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was the Black Hole of Calcutta on a small scale. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What goods could bear the expense of land-carriage between London and Calcutta? 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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