Mojave Desert

短语

n. 莫哈韦沙漠

发音

US
AU /məˈhɐːviːˌdesət/
AU /məʉˈhɐːviːˌdesət/

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    An arid desert in southern California, north and east of Los Angeles and southeast of the Sierra Nevada, the driest desert in North America.

词源

Named after the Mohave people, from a shortened form of their endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”). The spelling Mojave is from Spanish, while Mohave comes from modern English.

来源：wiktionary