- 1幼發拉底河。發源土耳其，流經敘利亞、伊拉克，與底格里斯河（Tigris）合流入波斯灣；兩河流域（美索不達米亞）即由此而來。
A long river in the Middle East. It rises in the mountains of eastern Turkey, runs south-east through Syria and then across Iraq, joins the near the bottom of Iraq, and the combined river into the Persian Gulf. It is about 2,800 km long, the longest river in western Asia. Its real weight in English is historical. The Euphrates and the are the two rivers of Mesopotamia — the name means 'between the rivers' — the land where some of the world's first cities, first writing and first law codes appeared, which is why people call it a cradle of civilisation. The river also appears repeatedly in the Bible, so English speakers who know no geography at all often still know the name. Always with 'the': the Euphrates, the Euphrates River. Say it yoo-FRAY-teez, four , stress on the second — the '-es' is pronounced 'eez', not silent as in English plurals.
組成The English form comes through Latin Euphrates from Greek Euphrates, which the Greeks took from Old Persian Ufratu. Behind that stand much older Middle Eastern names — Akkadian Purattu and Sumerian Buranun. So the Greek shape, which looks as if it might contain eu- 'good', is really just Greek ears reshaping a far older local name; scholars are not agreed on what that original name meant.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Euphratesname/juːˈfɹeɪtiːz/
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A river in West Asia, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。