zeriba
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
— On the left shore two neat farmyards shew themselves in a shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which are connected very regularly with each other, but perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals.
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An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
— The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha’s zariba.
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A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
— […] forming a zariba, or square, to resist cavalry.
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Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
— Once you had passed the initial zareba of fruit stands, souvenir stands, ice-cream stands, and the lair of the enthusiast whose aim in life it was to sell you picture postal-cards, and had won through to the long walk where the seats were, you were practically alone with Nature.
动词 v.
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To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.
— […] the Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.
词形变化
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Arabic زَرِيبَة (zarība, “pen, cattle pen”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Arabic زَرِيبَة (zarība, “pen, cattle pen”).
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