英语词汇dead sea的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dead sea
词源	Dead Sea. The Dead Sea, actually a salt lake in Palestine, is 51 miles long and 11 miles wide, falls to a depth of about 1,300 feet and is 26 percent salt, as opposed to about 3 or 4 percent in most oceans. Because its limpid blue-green water supports practically no life, the Romans named it the Mare Mortum, or Dead Sea.
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