Saracen
['særəsən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades.
(noun.) (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
(noun.) (when used broadly) any Arab.
凯西整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
整理:朱莉安娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Arabian, Arab.[2]. Mussulman, Mahometan.
约瑟芬校對
解釋/意思:
n. a name variously employed by medieval writers to designate the Mohammedans of Syria and Palestine the Arabs generally or the Arab-Berber races of northern Africa who conquered Spain and Sicily and invaded France.—adjs. Saracen′ic -al.—n. Sar′acenism.—Saracenic architecture a general name for Mohammedan architecture.
校對:拉里
例句/造句/用法:
- The remainder of the play ended--the Saracen's head was cut off, and Saint George stood as victor. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- No, said the lad who played the Saracen. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Harry as the Saracen should strut a bit more, and John needn't holler his inside out. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He's quite a youngster, said the Saracen apologetically, and you must excuse him. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Yes, you had better try that, said the Saracen. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Sir Franklin, answered the Templar, my Saracen slaves are true Moslems, and scorn as much as any Christian to hold intercourse with a Jew. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This very sword has cloven hundreds of Saracen Knights from crown to chin in those old times when Godfrey wielded it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As to where he is to be found, I left him to it at the Saracen's Head; but his name is Raffles. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They sent for us, said the Saracen. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We'll have our high tea at the Saracen's Head. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But shall we compare Saracens to Christians? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They would have been safer, though they had been taken in actual war against the Saracens, if they had once drank water with them. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He was followed by his Saracens, and some five or six men-at-arms, who had mounted their horses. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Three hundred Saracens hath this Brian de Bois-Guilbert slain with his own hand. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The Spanish Saracens disputed in Sicily with the Saracens from Africa. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The infidel Jew--it was merit with heaven to deal with him as I did, else wherefore are men canonized who dip their hands in the blood of Saracens? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In Spain the Saracens were giving ground before a renascent Christian effort. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the seventh century, the Saracens conquered Egypt and carried back therefrom, papyrus, and the knowledge of how to make paper from it to Europe. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Such was the Greek empire as long as it subsisted, and that of the Saracens during the reigns of the Abassides. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- From the Saracens this same custom obtained among the Moors of Africa; was by them brought into Spain, and there long sacredly observed. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
校對:奥斯瓦德