英语词源
- Caucasus (n.)
- mountain range between Europe and the Middle East, from Latin Caucasus, from Greek kaukasis, said by Pliny ("Natural History," book six, chap. XVII) to be from a Scythian word similar to kroy-khasis, literally "(the mountain) ice-shining, white with snow." But possibly from a Pelasgian root *kau- meaning "mountain."
权威例句
- 1. The Russian leader says problems in the Caucasus region are systemic.
- 这位俄罗斯总统称,高级所地区的问题是有系统的.
- 2. Armenia is a land - locked country located in Eurasia's Southern Caucasus mountain range.
- 亚美尼亚是位于欧亚大陆南高加索山脉的内陆国.
- 3. Kovalevsky was himself able to prove its existence in the Caucasus.
- 在高加索,柯瓦列夫斯基本人就可以证明这种家庭公社的存在.
- 4. Violence has flared elsewhere in the north Caucasus since October.
- 自从去年10月份以来,暴力活动就有愈演愈烈之势.
- 5. The problems of the Caucasus region cannot be solved by force.
- 高加索地区的问题不能靠武力解决.