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Damascus [dә'mæskәs]

n. 大马士革

The plane passed over Damascus.
飞机飞越了大马士革。
I hope to be posted to Damascus next year.
我希望明年被派往大马士革。
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.
你的鼻子仿佛朝大马色的利巴嫩塔。

damascus

[ noun ]
an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus
<noun.location>

Damascus \Da*mas"cus\, n. [L.]
A city of Syria.

{Damascus blade}, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at
Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and
proverbial for excellence.

{Damascus iron}, or {Damascus twist}, metal formed of thin
bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and
welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of
high quality, in which the surface, when polished and
acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance.

{Damascus steel}. See {Damask steel}, under {Damask}, a.

Scheer, secretary-general of the French Foreign Ministry, arrived in Beirut from two days of talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus.
The Syrian leader, who spoke shortly before the departure of Egypt's Mubarak for Libya after talks in Damascus, accused Israel of blocking peace.
His income included $1,800 in director's fees from the First Virginia Bank in Damascus, Va.
He flew from Damascus to Rhein-Main Air Base just outside Frankfurt, West Germany early Tuesday aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 transport plane, arriving in brilliant, sunny weather.
Damascus again said no. The Hague is the capital of the Netherlands, a country that, the Syrians complained, was "too pro-Israeli."
Hassan and Ghoneim remained in Damascus for further talks on joint action against Israel and the latest U.S. peace proposals for the Middle East.
As the Iranian ambassador in Damascus, Syria, in the mid-1980s, Mr. Mohtashemi was instrumental in establishing militant Shiite groups in Lebanon, which among other things resorted to abducting Westerners.
He was driven to Damascus by Brig. Ali Hammoud, Syria's military intelligence chief in Beirut.
It did not say how many weekly flights EgyptAir and Syrian Arab Airlines, the national carriers, would operate between Cairo and Damascus.
The source said he believes the hostage will be handed to the Syrian authorities somewhere in Lebanon and he will be delivered by the Foreign Ministry in Damascus to the Irish ambassador there.
Then Sir Richard Burton, the explorer, who had been consul in Damascus and had published an account of his Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, approached Payne apparently to collaborate with him but went on to produce his own version.
"We have had indirect talks with them since then on behalf of the hostages." Britain cut diplomatic ties with Damascus for allegedly using its embassy in London to help plot the unsuccessful destruction of an Israeli jetliner at Heathrow Airport.
The Popular Front, led by George Habash, is a Marxist group based in Damascus, Syria, and the second-largest of the PLO factions.
Damascus was Iran's main Arab supporter during the 8-year war with Iraq.
The group is based in Damascus, Syria.
"Apparently Polhill told his captors he would deliver a message privately and personally to President Bush only," Fitzwater said. "And that's what he did." Bush and Polhill also talked by telephone briefly with Reed in Damascus.
But American and West European diplomats and intelligence analysts argue that the evidence of a turn toward moderation in Damascus extends beyond Mr. Assad's efforts to free hostages.
Singh arrived in Damascus early today and was scheduled to be turned over to U.S. officials.
ARAB foreign ministers meeting in Damascus have described as 'ambiguous' moves by the new Israeli government to curb settlement activity in the occupied territories.
Appearing thin but healthy, 33-year-old Christen bounded down the steps of a Red Cross-chartered aircraft that arrived at Kloten airport after a flight from the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Mousa, also known by his code-name Abu Mousa, broke away from Fatah in 1983 and established his headquarters Damascus, the Syrian capital.
She said her husband had tried to rent a hall in Damascus to hold an open debate and called on the Syrian Bar Association for help.
Baker met with Assad in Damascus and gave the Syrian president written U.S. assurances that support Syria's demand for the return of the Golan Heights from Israel.
In Arkansas, 3.85 inches of rain fell overnight at Shirley in the northwest part of the state, 3.10 inches was reported at Damascus and 2.00 inches fell at Jasper, the National Weather Service.
Mrs. Oakley said Singh would be questioned in Damascus by Djerejian and other American diplomats.
Baker said while in Damascus that he was concerned about Iranian calls for a jihad, or holy war, against foreign forces in the gulf.
Damascus also has obtained advanced weaponry from the Soviet Union and more than doubled the number of attack aircraft in its arsenal, Levran said.
On Wednesday, press reports said Syria had demanded Aoun remove medium-range missiles, capable of reaching Damascus, that his forces were said to have received from Iraq.
Mr. Baker, who is in London with President Bush for the economic summit of major industrialized nations, will travel Thursday to Damascus to try to nail down the details of Syria's response to the U.S. plan.
Broad lines of the plan were worked out in three days of talks between Hrawi and Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus.

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