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genoa

/jen-oh-uh/US // ˈdʒɛn oʊ ə //UK // (ˈdʒɛnəʊə) //

热那亚,基诺亚,日内瓦,玄武

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : a large jib for cruising and racing yachts, overlapping the mainsail.

Examples

  • Parsifal is presently moored in Genoa, Italy, and Shephard will be reunited with her when the cruising season begins again.

  • Renzo Piano, a celebrity architect who was born in Genoa, designed the new bridge, and more than 1,000 laborers worked around the clock to build it in just over a year.

  • Columbus, while opening the door for Spain, was from Genoa, so celebrating him confuses this part of U.S. history.

  • Jerry aside, who on the ACN team bears the most responsibility for the “Genoa” screw-up?

  • What is the whole “Genoa” storyline based on, or is that just something Aaron cooked up?

  • As the season unfolds, at least over the first four episodes, the Genoa and Romney storylines come to dominate the narrative.

  • At first the piece feels like a straight-ish documentary, about rioters at the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, in July 2011.

  • Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.

  • The view from the sea-side may be somewhat better, but not much—not comparable to that of Genoa from the Mediterranean.

  • Scarcely was Genoa pacified when the general was confronted by a much more serious event.

  • The French had captured three thousand prisoners during the sorties round Genoa.

  • On entering Genoa, the steamer while making for the quay passed near a great yacht with the Tunisian flag flying.