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单词 mia-mia
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Definition of mia-mia in English:

mia-mia

noun ˈmʌɪəˌmʌɪə
Australian
  • An Aboriginal hut or shelter.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The following day, Wills was so weak, he could scarcely crawl out of the mia-mia on the south bank of the Cooper.
    • These were removed from the roofs of living shelters erected for protection from wet season rains done either on sheets of gum-tree bark that form the walls of their mia-mias, or on the roofs and walls of their rock-shelters, and represent animals and mythological gnomes and spirits, of whom they stand in dread.
    • They had grown so careless that they did not think of pitching their mia-mias where no one could see them from a distance.
    • At their campsites, Aborigines constructed simple huts, called mia-mias, using stone hatchets to remove sheets of bark from trees.
    • The author challenges some previously strongly held opinions about the Aborigines: that their only shelters were frail mia-mias, that they had no attachment to a particular area of land, and that they were simple hunters and gatherers.

Origin

From Wathawurung (an extinct Aboriginal language) or Nyungar.

 
 
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