单词
Kuwait
[k?'weit]
基本信息
- n. 科威特（西南亚国家，首都科威特）
畅通词汇
英文词源
- Kuwait
- Persian Gulf country, named for its capital city (said to have been founded in current form 1705), which is from Arabic al-kuwayt, diminutive of kut, a word used in southern Iraq and eastern Arabia for a fortress-like house surrounded by a settlement and protected by encircling water, and said to be ultimately from Persian. Related: Kuwaiti.
双语例句
- 1. The war began with overnight air raids on Baghdad and Kuwait.
- 战争以对巴格达和科威特的夜间空袭开始。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The fire left Kuwait's oil industry in a sorry state.
- 这场大火使科威特的石油产业陷入悲惨的境地。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Many of Kuwait's spacious freeways were engineered by W S Atkins.
- 科威特有很多宽阔的高速公路是阿特金斯集团设计建造的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. In 1989, Kuwait was exporting 1.5 million barrels of oil a day.
- 1989年，科威特每天出口150万桶石油。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. the Emir of Kuwait
- 科威特的埃米尔
来自《权威词典》
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