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Timbuktu

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英文词源

Timbuktu: city on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, older spelling Timbuctoo, used allusively in English for "most distant place imaginable" from at least 1863. The name is from Songhai, literally "hollow," in reference to the depression in which it stands.

双语例句

1. The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu.: 他被授职驻华总代理.

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