| 单词 | Bactrian |
| 释义 | Bactrian, a. (n.)|ˈbæktrɪən|
[ad. Gr. βακτριανός, L. Bactriānus.]
Of or belonging to Bactria, an ancient country of central Asia, lying between the Hindu-Kush and the Oxus. Also n., a native of this country.
Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel of central Asia; also Bactrian, ellipt.
1601Holland tr. Pliny's Hist. World vi. xxiii. 131 This country lieth overagainst the Bactrians. 1607Topsell Foure-Footed Beastes 92 All those [camels] which are in India, are saide by Didimus to be bred in the Mountaines of the Bactrians,..and these are worthily called Bactrians, because they were first of all conceiued among them. Ibid. 94 They want hornes (I meane both the Arabian and Bactrian Camell). 1757J. Dyer Fleece iv. 345 O'er Bukor, Cabul, and the Bactrian vales. 1797Encycl. Brit. II. 728/1 The Bactrians differed little in their manners from the Nomades. 1832Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 207/2 The priests of Mithras..offered him..their Bactrian dromedaries, if he chose to depart. 1877[see iranic a.]. 1908Animal Management 276 The double humped camel, also called the ‘Bactrian’, is found in Turkestan, and throughout central Asia. 1912H. G. Rawlinson Bactria i. 15 The Bactrians were famous for their pithy proverbial sayings. 1927W. J. Turner Aesthetes 14 On a Bactrian Horse, T'ang period. |
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