| 释义 |
‖ donga Chiefly S. Africa.|ˈdɒŋgə|
[Native name.]
A channel or gully formed by the action of water; a ravine or watercourse with steep sides. (See also quot. 1966.)
1879Daily News 20 June 5/6 A donga was safely crossed. A donga..would be called..in Scotland, a gully. 1893J. T. Bent Ruined Cities Mashonaland xii. 374 The culverts which they had made over the dongas. 1948H. Drake-Brockman in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 2nd Ser. 102 There were..brilliant flowers in the dongas after it had rained. 1964Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 9 Aug. 20/5 The Government Administration [of New Guinea] builds and supplies homes for its employees. These are called ‘dongas’. 1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) viii. 177 Donga, any gully or depression in which men could settle themselves in order to loaf... Also used both in Tobruk and New Guinea for a makeshift shelter... Not long after the end of World War II, the word acquired use among New Guinea's white population for a house. |