1. 1突尼斯(市)——突尼西亞的首都。台灣通常把國家叫「突尼西亞」、首都叫「突尼斯」;中國大陸則兩個都寫「突尼斯」,看大陸資料時要靠上下文分辨。

    Tunis is the capital city of Tunisia, a country on the north coast of Africa. It sits in the northeast of the country, right by the Mediterranean Sea, and it is by far the biggest city there — the place where the government sits and where most business happens. Two things people usually connect with it. One is the old centre, called the , a maze of narrow streets and markets that is hundreds of years old. The other is : the famous ancient city that fought long wars against Rome stood just outside modern Tunis, and its ruins are there today, close enough to visit in an afternoon. So when a history book says '', the place it means is now a suburb of Tunis. Always a capital letter, and no 'the' — you say 'in Tunis', 'to Tunis', the way you say 'in Taipei'. Note the two words look almost the same: Tunis is the city, Tunisia is the country around it.

組成From Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Where that name itself came from is not settled — some scholars link it to a Berber root meaning 'to lie down' or 'to spend the night', so 'a camp'; others link it to Tanit, a goddess of ancient Carthage. Both are guesses.

同家族的字

  • Tunisiathe country name is built on the city name Tunis plus the ending -ia, which English uses to make country names
  • TunisianTunisia plus -an, the ending that turns a place into a person from there, or into a describing word

原始詞典資料6 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。

Tunisname/ˈtjuːnɪs/

  • 1

    A city on the northern coast of Africa

    • Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
  • 2

    A city on the northern coast of Africa:

  • 3

    A city on the northern coast of Africa:

  • 4

    A city on the northern coast of Africa:

    • Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
  • 5

    A city on the northern coast of Africa:

  • 6

    A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

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