piedmont
piedmont 英 ['piːdmɒnt] 美 ['pidmɑnt]
n. 山麓；山麓地带 adj. 山麓的
名词复数:piedmonts
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- n. 山麓；山麓地带
- adj. 山麓的
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1. Last year, a Tunisian woman was fined €500 for wearing a burqa in Italy's piedmont region.
去年，在意大利山麓地区，一名穿戴罩袍的突尼斯妇女被处以罚金€500。
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2. Several years ago, in piedmont, Alabama, a tornado came through the town on Palm Sunday and crushed a United Methodist church, killing the pastor's daughter.
几年前，在亚拉巴马州的山麓上，一股龙卷风在棕枝全日（复活节前的星期日）横扫了村庄，并摧毁了一个联合循道公会教徒的教堂。
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3. Rather than creating an Italian state, unification expanded the Kingdom of piedmont-Sardinia in Italy’s north at the expense of the Catholic Church and other local rulers.
在意大利北部山麓国土上蔓延的统一只是让天主教会和其它当地统治者付出了应有的代价，却没有创建一个意大利国家。
- Piedmont region in northern Italy, from Old Italian pie di monte "foot of the mountains," from pie "foot" (from Latin pes "foot," from PIE root *ped- "foot") + monte "mountain" (from PIE root *men- (2) "to project"). Related: Piedmontese.
- piedmont (n.) name given to the fertile upland region along the eastern slope of the Appalachians, 1755, originally piemont, from Italian Piemonte, literally "mountain foot," name of the region at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy (see Piedmont). With -d- added by 1855. Applied to similar features of other mountain ranges by 1860.
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