Fertile Crescent
专有名词
英 /ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/
美 /ˈfɝːtəl ˈkɹɛsənt/
英文释义
专有名词
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A crescent-shaped geographic region of fertile land in the Middle East in Western Asia, stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Cyprus.
— This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.
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词源
Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.
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