| 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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