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tanna

/Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah/US // Sephardic Hebrew tɑˈnɑ; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English ˈtɑ nɑ //

塔纳,塔娜

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural tan·na·im [Sephardic Hebrew tah-nah-eem; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tah-nah-im]. /Sephardic Hebrew tɑ nɑˈim; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tɑˈnɑ ɪm/. Judaism.

    • : one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.

Examples

  • The intrusive lens at the tennis court belonged to an enterprising 30-year-old pap, Niraj Tanna of Ikon Pictures.

  • And who should have turned up but Niraj Tanna, who took a picture.

  • I am told he pushed Kate to put the fear of God into the already weakened paparazzi by suing Tanna, the photographer, personally.

  • In his pictures, the whisperers note, she is always smiling, and Tanna seems to have a refined knowledge of where she will be.

  • So severe are the legal threats against Tanna he has put a virtual moratorium on his royal pictures.

  • Tanna has an active volcano, now smoking away, and is like a hot-bed, wonderfully fertile.

  • Thermometer 81; Tanna and Erromango, with their rugged hilly outlines, breaking the line of the bright sparkling horizon.

  • On the contrary, they much resemble many of the inhabitants whom I have seen at the islands Tanna and Mallicolla.

  • The success of his project for preventing the fouling of the passage at Tanna Fort was more than ever doubtful.

  • The question now was, how to prevent the men in charge of the vessels and the authorities in Tanna Fort from becoming suspicious.