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nubia

/noo-bee-uh, nyoo-/US // ˈnu bi ə, ˈnyu- //UK // (ˈnjuːbɪə) //

努比亚,瑙比亚,奴比亚,尼亚

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a light, knitted woolen head scarf for women.

Examples

  • The DCF dossier chronicles in heartbreaking detail how Nubia and Victor were betrayed by not one family but two.

  • The furnace where the Khamsîn brewed in distant Nubia sent its warnings in advance; it was slowly travelling northward.

  • In Egypt and Nubia it is grown to a considerable extent, as well as by most of the native tribes of the South-west.

  • The description of a blast of this kind, which overtook Mr. Bruce, in the desert of Nubia, is still more terrible.

  • The men of Nubia are Christians, but they are black, like the Moors, on account of the great heat of the sun.

  • But the classic expedition by dahabiya, the ascent of the river from Cairo to Nubia, will soon have ceased to be worth making.