Mecca
['mekə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a place that attracts many visitors; 'New York is a mecca for young artists'.
(noun.) joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia; located in western Saudi Arabia; as the birthplace of Muhammad it is the holiest city of Islam.
手打:利--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was inevitable that Mecca and Medina should be in a state of rivalry and bickering feud. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Moor who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca is entitled to high distinction. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Medina and Mecca were now only of importance as pilgrimage centres, to which the faithful turned to pray. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The lordship of Mecca was well worth the concession. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These things were latent in the mind and conscience of Mecca and Medina; he did but call them forth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Until he was forty he did indeed live a particularly undistinguished life in Mecca, as the husband of a prosperous wife. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mecca was not merely nor primarily a trading centre; it was a place of pilgrimage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hundreds of Moors come to Tangier every year and embark for Mecca. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His claims formed an undertow to the resentment of Medina and of the rival families of Mecca against the advancement of the Omayyads. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Never again after this quaint failure did Mecca make an effective rally against Muhammad, and one by one its leading men came over to his side. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But Mecca resolved to avenge Badr, and at the battle of Uhud, near Medina, inflicted an indecisive defeat upon the Prophet's followers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is one of the four holy cities of the Israelites, and is to them what Mecca is to the Mohammedan and Jerusalem to the Christian. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A year before his death, at the end of the tenth year of the Hegira, Muhammad made his last pilgrimage from Medina to Mecca. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was in Mecca about the year A.D. 570 that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was born. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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