Egyptian
[ɪ'dʒɪpʃ(ə)n]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC.
(noun.) a native or inhabitant of Egypt.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language .
安托万整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa.
(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.
(n.) A gypsy.
編輯:威尔玛
解釋/意思:
adj. belonging to Egypt.—n. a native of Egypt: a gipsy.—adj. Egyptolog′ical.—ns. Egyptol′ogist; Egyptol′ogy the science of Egyptian antiquities.—Egyptian darkness darkness like that of Exod. x. 22.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- From Egyptian tomb-paintings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were afraid of Egyptian plague and cholera. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It was probably chiefly Egyptian. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The king of Judah became an Egyptian tributary. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He would be night-free, like an Egyptian, steadfast in perfectly suspended equilibrium, pure mystic nodality of physical being. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You remember what the Egyptian priest said to Solon,—'You Greeks are always children. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I swapped horses with Mohammed, the kingly-looking Egyptian who is our Ferguson's lieutenant. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Whether their fanaticism for number was owing to the influence of Egyptian priests or had an Oriental origin, it gave to the Pythagoreans an enthusiasm for pure mathematics. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Iron was not employed before the period of contact with Egyptian civilization. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It was copied by a priest about 1600 B..-the classical period of Egyptian culture--from a document seven hundred years older. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,--using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Then he looked up; she had not moved any more than if she had been some great Egyptian statue. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Our most satisf actory data in reference to Egyptian medicine are derived, however, from the Ebers papyrus. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Early Egyptian paintings show this going on. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Egyptians were the earliest and greatest agriculturists, and from them the art was learned by the Greeks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Suffice it to say that Cr?sus made a defensive alliance both with the Lacedemonians and the Egyptians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- About 5000 B.C., or earlier, the traces of these primitive peoples cease, and the true Egyptians appear on the scene. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Chinese, the Hindoos, Egyptians, and other Orientals had Invented Both Arts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The Egyptians even developed an apparatus for telling the time by reference to the stars--a star-clock similar in its purpose to the sundial. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Like the Egyptians, the Babylonians were not greatly concerned at a change of rule to Macedonian from Persian. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- By t he Egyptians, also, was carefully observed the season of the year at which certain stars and constellations were visible at dawn. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Ebers papyr us shows that the Egyptians knew of the development of the beetle from the egg, of the blow-fly from the larva, and of the frog from the tadpole. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It appears to have been unknown to the Assyrians and Egyptians, or if known, its knowledge confined to their wise men, as it does not appear in any of their monuments. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the Egyptians, geometry was concerned w ith surfaces and dimensions, with areas and cubical contents; for the Greek, with his powers of abstraction, it became a study of line and angle. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The Egyptians, the Hebrews and the Chinese, and Oriental nations generally had locks and keys of ponderous size. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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