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askari

/as-kuh-ree/US // ˈæs kə ri //UK // (asˈkaːri) //

问里,阿斯卡利,阿卡里

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural as·ka·ris, as·ka·ri.

    • : a native African police officer or soldier, especially one serving a colonial administration.

Examples

  • It has been six months since unknown insurgents destroyed the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra.

  • Graceful as a deer was Nazoro, and a good Askari lost in a better operating-room boy.

  • Loads were piled neatly, covered with a tarpaulin, and the pile guarded by an askari.

  • He thought of going out to join the askari, or native guard, who was keeping watch some thirty feet away.

  • It seemed absolutely endless, and once or twice I feared that two of the Askari would have died of the wet, cold, and exposure.

  • Fortunately there were at Lamu at this time a party of Wakwafi Askari (soldiers).