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egypt

/ee-jipt/US // ˈi dʒɪpt //UK // (ˈiːdʒɪpt) //

埃塞俄比亚,埃及,土耳其

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Arab Republic of Egypt. a republic in northeastern Africa. 386,198 sq. mi.. Capital: Cairo.Arabic Misr [mis-ruh] /ˈmɪs rə/ .Formerly United Arab Republic .
    • : an ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa: divided into the Nile Delta and the area from Cairo south to the Sudan .

Examples

  • In ancient Egypt, a mud wrap did not necessarily mean a day at the spa.

  • The company is a top employer in Egypt, with more than 1,200 workers, and brings in $200 million in revenue across the region.

  • This pharaoh, or king of ancient Egypt, had died in the 1320s BC.

  • The works will include paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt, as well as the Temple of Dendur from Egypt and the medieval tapestry The Unicorn Rests in a Garden.

  • It’s been used as a perfume and in ancient Egypt, in embalming processes, and which Christians have interpreted as foreshadowing Jesus’s death.

  • For now, the Egyptian government has issued a statement saying that Clooney is free to enter Egypt “whenever she wants.”

  • The only repercussions Iraqi has faced are outside of Egypt, as she lost her place in an upcoming Swiss Film Festival, he added.

  • Egypt has a comparatively low number of HIV cases compared to the rest of Africa, with just 11,000 infected people nationwide.

  • Jordan also banned it, and Malaysia, Egypt, and Indonesia subjected it to their censorship boards.

  • But the site has seen little of the decimation from heavy tourism that has plagued the northern pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

  • The governor of the fortress was provided with a safe residence in Egypt, and an annual pension of 75,000 piasters.

  • Egypt was once a land of mystery; now, every lad, on leaving Eton, yachts it to the pyramids.

  • And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.

  • But scarcely had the new ambassador arrived at his destination when he heard of Bonaparte's projected expedition to Egypt.

  • His imagination, wakened by Egypt, plunged backwards with a sense of strange familiarity.