| 释义 |
gourbi|ˈgʊəbɪ|
Also 8 gurbie.
[ad. Algerian Arab. gurbī.]
A tent, or poor dwelling-place, in Northern Africa.
1738T. Shaw Trav. 288 These Gurbies are generally raised either with Hurdles, daubed over with Mud, or else they are built out of the Materials of some adjacent Ruins, or with square Cakes of Clay baked in the Sun. 1854J. R. Morell Algeria 262 The mountains they were now traversing are intersected by very deep and beautiful valleys, up the steep slopes of which were clustered numerous gourbies, or huts forming villages. 1895F. B. & W. H. Workman Alger. Mem. 113 In the Province of Constantine the people..live in tents or gourbis made of white or light-coloured canvas. 1908Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 2/3, I have watched for thee From my lone gourbi. 1960Spectator 14 Oct. 561 To be a refugee from Algeria means that..you live in a leaky ‘gourbi’. 1963Economist 29 June 1352/3 A number [of Alglerians]..must remain..in the ‘gourbis’, their floorless, mosquito-ridden mud or wattle hovels. |