Semitic
[si'mitik;se-]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
(adj.) of or relating to the group of Semitic languages; 'Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology' .
校對:维托--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.
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解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to the Semites or supposed descendants of Shem or their language customs &c.—also Shemit′ic.—ns. Sem′ite; Semitisā′tion.—v.t. Sem′itise to render Semitic in language or religion.—ns. Sem′itism a Semitic idiom; Sem′itist a Hebrew scholar.—Semitic languages Assyrian Aramean Hebrew Phœnician together with Arabic and Ethiopic.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Semitic nomads of the Arabian desert seem also to have had a heliolithic stage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our modern numerals are Arabic; our arithmetic and algebra are essentially Semitic sciences. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The earliest ships on the sea were either Sumerian or Hamitic; the Semitic peoples followed close upon these pioneers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sargon of Akkad, who founded the first Semitic empire in Asia (3800 B.., was brought up by an irrigator, and was himself a gardener. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Until after the time of Alexander the Great there are few traces of any Aryan or Semitic, much less of Hamitic influence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even the Semitic languages have been approached at a disadvantage because few Jews think in Hebrew. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The operations of the Arameans and such-like Semitic trading people led to the organization of credit and monetary security. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We write here of the nomadic peoples, the Aryan herdsmen and Semitic shepherds, and we write in the most general terms. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The newcomers learnt the Sumerian writing (the cuneiform writing) and the Sumerian language; they set up no Semitic writing of their own. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Medes and Persians formed an alliance with the nomadic Semitic Chaldeans of the south for the joint undoing of Assyria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Semitic peoples, we may point out here, are to this day _counting peoples_ strong in their sense of equivalents and reparation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With each invasion first this and then that section of the Semitic peoples comes into history. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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