Persian Gulf country, named for its capital city (said to have been founded in current form 1705), which is from Arabic al-kuwayt, diminutive of kut, a word used in southern Iraq and eastern Arabia for a fortress-like house surrounded by a settlement and protected by encircling water, and said to be ultimately from Persian. Related: Kuwaiti.
雙語例句
1. The war began with overnight air raids on Baghdad and Kuwait.
戰爭以對巴格達和科威特的夜間空襲開始。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The fire left Kuwait's oil industry in a sorry state.
這場大火使科威特的石油產業陷入悲慘的境地。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Many of Kuwait's spacious freeways were engineered by W S Atkins.
科威特有很多寬闊的高速公路是阿特金斯集團設計建造的。
來自柯林斯例句
4. In 1989, Kuwait was exporting 1.5 million barrels of oil a day.