Kuwait
[k?'weit]
- n. 科威特（西南亞國家，首都科威特）
暢通詞匯
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. The war began with overnight air raids on Baghdad and Kuwait.
- 戰(zhàn)爭以對(duì)巴格達(dá)和科威特的夜間空襲開始。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The fire left Kuwait's oil industry in a sorry state.
- 這場(chǎng)大火使科威特的石油產(chǎn)業(yè)陷入悲慘的境地。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Many of Kuwait's spacious freeways were engineered by W S Atkins.
- 科威特有很多寬闊的高速公路是阿特金斯集團(tuán)設(shè)計(jì)建造的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. In 1989, Kuwait was exporting 1.5 million barrels of oil a day.
- 1989年，科威特每天出口150萬桶石油。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. the Emir of Kuwait
- 科威特的埃米爾
來自《權(quán)威詞典》