- 1底格里斯河（伊拉克、土耳其境內；與幼發拉底河之間即兩河流域「美索不達米亞」）
The Tigris is one of the two great rivers of the Middle East. It starts in the mountains of eastern Turkey and runs south-east through Iraq, past Mosul and through Baghdad, and near the sea it joins the other river, the . The land between the two rivers is called Mesopotamia, which is a Greek name meaning 'between the rivers'. This matters because that flat, watered land is where some of the oldest cities in the world were built, and where writing itself was first used — so the Tigris turns up constantly in history lessons about early civilisation. In English the name always takes 'the' in front of it, as river names do: 'the Tigris', never just 'Tigris'. Say it TY-griss, with the first part like the word 'tie'. Of the two rivers, the Tigris is the faster one, and historically the harder one to travel on.
組成The name travelled a very long way: English took it from Latin Tigris, Latin from Greek Tígrēs, Greek from Old Persian Tigrā, and Persian from the Akkadian and Sumerian name for the river, Idigna. The Sumerian name is thought to be built from pieces meaning something like 'the river that runs' — but scholars are not fully agreed on that last step.
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。
Tigrisname/ˈtaɪɡɹɪs/
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A river in West Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
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。