英语词汇gobi desert的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gobi desert
词源	Gobi Desert. As Partridge points out, gobi means desert in Mongolian. Therefore, “The Gobi” is “the desert.” Sha-mo, “sea of sand,” is the Mandarin Chinese name for the gritty, desolate place, which covers some 500,000 square miles, extending 1,500 miles from Manchuria to China. However, the Sahara in North Africa is the world’s largest desert, covering 3,579,000 square miles.
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