1.Also among the possibilities: Iceland in winter, exploring the “birthplace of tea” in China, or strolling through the sacred granaries, casbahs and feasts of Morocco, or tracking wolves in Sweden.
英:[ˈkɑ:zbɑ:]
美:[ˈkæzˌbɑ, ˈkɑz-]
Cas·bah
kaez b [or] kaez ba [or] kaz ba
noun
(sometimes l.c.) the old, crowded native quarter of any of several North African cities, esp. Algiers.
the citadel and palace of a North African ruler.
castle, alcazar
“卡斯巴”(kasba)源于北非阿拉伯方言,意为“堡垒”,1738年由法语 casbah 引入,指北非城市的旧城区或城堡。
French, from Arabic dialect qaṣba
The first known use of casbah was in 1844
1.Also among the possibilities: Iceland in winter, exploring the “birthplace of tea” in China, or strolling through the sacred granaries, casbahs and feasts of Morocco, or tracking wolves in Sweden.
2.Clashes broke out on Wednesday near government offices in the old city, or casbah.
3.The face-offs that started with a break-in at Wick’s house have since traveled to antique weapons stores and Casablanca casbahs; New York City tunnels, bridges, harbors, and public libraries; and European museums and churches, with no civilians ever getting caught in the crossfire.
4.She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.
5.Hundreds of angry police officers demonstrated the next day outside his office in the casbah.
6.With its dark cement latticework facade meant to evoke a casbah, the MuCEM is also a study in positive and negative space.
7.Tourists need a guide to pilot them through the Casbah.
游客需要一名导游来带领他们游览卡斯巴.
8.Tourists need a guide to pilot them through the Casbah.
游客需要一名导游来带领他们游览卡斯巴。
9.A man who said his name was Ali Baba presided over the place like a casbah chieftain.
10.Twisting cobblestone paths lead up and up, around the ocher-colored casbah, past a crumbling cemetery where goats graze, to a landscape of green hills and mountaintops, uninterrupted sky extending beyond.
11.The records company’s founder Neil Bogart channeled the movie Casablanca with a disco touch, depicting a desert casbah invitation to the exotic city.
12.So if you’re looking for a chateau or casbah kitsch, go elsewhere.
13.For example, he could make “the proposal for ratification of auditors sound like an invitation to the casbah,” according to an article in The New York Times in 1975, describing one Revlon annual meeting.
14.As I had attended the dinner, given by one of the casbah’s reigning hostesses, Laure Welfling, I was happy to confirm the story and earn my second scoop of soufflé.
15.Strummer’s lyrics are inspired by Iran’s post-Islamic revolution ban on pop music, the singer’s idea being that the people would rise up and “rock the casbah”.
16.Casbah: What's Good About Goodbye?
阿拉伯式之宫廷:再见的好处是什么?
17.The community’s salmon-pink palette was suggested by the rosy sandstone walls, and its hilltop clubhouse, introduced by a Middle Eastern-style water stair, was placed to overlook the villas like a casbah surveying so many riads.
18.Decades have passed since she and her friends moved between hideouts in the winding streets of the casbah of Algiers, where freedom fighters once organized in secret.
19.We went on patrol, into the casbah, and I think that was the first time I sensed the existential fear of living under constant threat.
20.Outside his window lies a whirl of cheap goods, dingy liquor stores and panhandlers, but Mr. Parker is tranquil, his apartment a luminous casbah of exotic décor.