Sicily
英 ['sisili]
美
- n. 西西里岛（意大利一岛名）
英文词源
- Sicily
- island off the southwest tip of Italy, from Latin Sicilia, from Greek Sikelia, from Sikeloi (plural) "Sicilians," from the name of an ancient people living along the Tiber, whence part of them emigrated to the island that was thereafter named for them. The Greeks distinguished Sikeliotes "a Greek colonist in Sicily" from Sikelos "a native Sicilian." Related: Sicilian.
双语例句
- 1. A powerful earthquake struck the Italian island of Sicily early this morning.
- 今日凌晨意大利西西里岛发生强地震。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He also claimed the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.
- 他还声明拥有那不勒斯和西西里王国.
来自英汉非文学 - 文明史
- 3. Twenty minutes later he was on an Italian freighter slated for Sicily.
- 二十分钟之后,他登上了一艘开往西西里的意大利货轮.
来自教父部分
- 4. In Sicily there was no surer road to death.
- 迈克尔冷冰冰他说,“眼下不去.
来自教父部分
- 5. In Sicily the peasant does not live on the land he cultivates.
- 在西西里,农民一般都不单独住在自己耕种的土地上,因为这太危险.
来自教父部分