| 单词 | the roof of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe roof of the world P3. the roof of the world: (a description applied to) a range of mountains, or a place, regarded as the highest or most elevated in the world (originally applied to the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia, later also to Tibet or the Himalayas); cf. sense 5b. [After Persian bām-i dunyā < bām roof (compare Pahlavi bān, further etymology uncertain) + i of + dunyā world ( < Arabic dunyā (feminine of adnā, elative of danī near, low) in al-dār al-dunyā the lower abode (i.e. the earth, as opposed to the sky; also (in Islamic theological use) this world, as opposed to the hereafter), and similar phrases).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > type of > spec pike1555 the roof of the world1840 Munro1903 1840 Lit. Gaz. 13 June 379/1 We stood (to use the native expression) upon the Bami-Dúniah or ‘roof of the world’. 1876 T. E. Gordon (title) The roof of the world, being the narrative of a journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir. 1889 G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia v. 144 Descending from the hidden ‘Roof of the world’, its waters tell of forgotten peoples and whisper secrets of unknown lands. 1932 Punch 23 Nov. 564/3 When I saw ‘climbed’ I make no reference to those inexplicable creatures who, lashed together, enjoy clambering about the roof of the world for the mere fun of not falling off. 1956 G. N. Patterson God's Fool i. 13 I sat there in that remote valley in Tibet where no white man had ever been, fifteen thousand feet above sea-level on the roof of the world. 1979 Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. 2/3 (advt.) Snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas along the roof of the world. 2004 P. Southern Craze xxiv. 178 They swayed gently on the roof of the world, waiting for passengers to alight, cradle by cradle. < as lemmas |
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