释义 |
BedouinBed‧ou‧in /ˈbeduɪn/ (also Bedu) noun (plural Bedouin or Bedouins) [countable] BedouinOrigin: 1400-1500 French bédouin, from Arabic bidwan, plural of badawi ‘person who lives in the desert’ - Cecil had imported a tribe of Bedouins to the site to play the spectacular scenes.
- It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert.
- Six Arabs - their headdress and robes suggest they are Bedouin - rest beside an ancient well of translucent blue water.
- Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20-30 percent weight loss.
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