Scythian
['sɪθɪən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians.
(noun.) a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia.
(adj.) of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language .
編輯:兰尼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
(n.) The language of the Scythians.
欧内斯廷編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to an ancient nomadic race in the northern parts of Asia.—n. one belonging to this race.—adj. Scyth′ic.
伊恩校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Crassus found himself against the Scythian again; against mobile tribes of horsemen led by a monarch in Median costume. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Parthians of the first century B.C. probably mingled Scythian and Mongolian elements. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Scythian allies of Assyria drop out of the story after this. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They crossed the Danube, and prepared to give battle to the Scythian army and take the cities of the Scythians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No doubt they assimilated much Scythian population as they spread down to the Black Sea. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If Darius escaped they could be on his side; if he was destroyed, there was nothing of which the Scythians could complain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Would the Scythians go back and destroy the Persians to make sure of them while the Greeks on their part destroyed the bridge? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were, perhaps, not so far advanced along the nomadic line as the Scythians of the great plains. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some Scythians have been and have gone again. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But Crassus was less quick than Darius to realize the need of withdrawal, and the Parthians were better bowmen than the Scythians Darius met. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In accordance with the suggestions of Histi?us the Scythians rode off in search of the Persians, and so left the Greeks safe in either event. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But the Scythians had no cities, and they evaded a battle, and the war degenerated into a tedious and hopeless pursuit of more mobile enemies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It would seem there had been a discussion between the Scythians and the Greeks. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From the east the Scythians and the Parthians and Bactrians also drove southward. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Indeed, even as they parleyed the Greeks set to work to demolish the end that linked them to the Scythians as quickly as possible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Aryan Scythians are for the Semitic Assyrians; the Aryan Medes for the Semitic Babylonians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They crossed the Danube, and prepared to give battle to the Scythian army and take the cities of the Scythians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A fourth people, related to these Aryan tribes, who appear at this time in the narrative of Herodotus, are the Scythians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The judgment of Thucydides, that both Europe and Asia could not resist the Scythians united, has been verified by the experience of all ages. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
編輯:威尔玛