West Bank

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A Palestinian territory on the west bank of the Jordan river, claimed by and under the partial administration of the State of Palestine, and illegally occupied by Israel.
    — 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Smaller than Delaware, packed with 2.7 million people, the core of a proposed future Palestinian state, the occupied West Bank is partitioned by the Oslo Accords into zones of Palestinian and Israeli control.
  2. The west bank of the Mississippi River within the vicinity of New Orleans; home to several distinct communities, including Algiers, the only neighborhood of New Orleans proper located west of the river. Contrasted with the East Bank.

词形变化

the West Bank canonical

词汇关系

部分词

词源

* (Sense 1) Calque of Arabic الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة (aḍ-ḍiffa(t) al-ḡarbiyya, literally “the west bank”), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River.
* (Sense 2) From its location relative to the Mississippi River (and not New Orleans, which it is south of).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary