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Baku is the capital of . It sits on a dry peninsula that sticks out into the Caspian Sea, so it has long been a port on that sea’s western shore. Oil under the ground made the city famous and rich from the late 1800s; you can still see that old money in its stone buildings. In English the name is usually said BAH-koo. Maps sometimes tuck it into “south-east ,” though what you actually notice is how far east it stands, right on the water. This entry is only the city.
巴庫(亞塞拜然首都;台灣稱該國「亞塞拜然」,中國大陸作「阿塞拜疆」)
組成The English name comes from Classical Persian bākū (باکو).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bakuname/ˈbækuː/
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The capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
- COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.
bakunoun
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA type of supernatural being said to devour nightmares.
- 2005, David Booth, Story Drama, 2nd edition, Pembroke Publishers, page 49, The creature explained that he was a baku. A baku eats dreams and nightmares. To a baku, a bad dream is delicious!
- 2008, "Baku", entry in Brenda Rosen, The Mythical Creatures Bible, Octopus Publishing Group, page 113, A person awakening from a nightmare should call three times saying, "Baku, eat my dreams." Thus summoned, the Baku will turn bad omens into good fortune by devouring evil influences.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。