撒哈拉沙漠
Sǎ hā lā Shā mò
Pinyin
Definition
撒哈拉沙漠
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- Sahara Desert
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一盘散沙
- 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
- 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
不见兔子不撒鹰
- 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
- 2 one doesn't act without some incentive
含沙射影
- 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
- 2 to make oblique charges
- 3 to make insinuations
- 4 to insinuate
封沙育林
- 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)
恒河沙数
- 1 countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
Sample Sentences
尼罗河也被称为世界第一长河。全长6670公里。流经坦桑尼亚、卢旺达、乌干达、埃塞俄比亚、苏丹和埃及等国,穿过世界上面积最大的撒哈拉沙漠,最后流入地中海。流域面积为335万平方公里,相当于非洲大陆面积的九分之一。
The Nile has also been called the world's longest river, at some 6670 kilometers in length. It flows through the countries of Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, passing through the Sahara Desert - the largest by area in the world, and finally flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. Its watershed covers 3,350,000 square kilometers, equal to 1/9th of the surface of the African Continent.