kikuyu

kikuyu

美 [kɪˈkuju] 　英 [kiˈku:ju:]

• n.吉库尤人；吉库尤语
• 网络基库尤人；基库尤族；基库尤语

英汉解释

n.	1. 吉库尤人 2. 吉库尤语

英英解释

n.	1. a member of a people living mainly in highland Kenya, especially around Mount Kenya 2. a Benue-Congo language spoken in parts of Kenya.

例句

Well-connected Kikuyu business leaders are trying to persuade Mr Kibaki to give in and form a government of national unity.

无所不知，无所不能的基库尤商界领袖正在试图劝说奇贝吉先生宣布成立一个统一团结的政府。

" He paused. " I was the only Kikuyu to play on the national basketball team, and yet you never once came to watch me.

稍微停了下，他接着说，“我曾是国家篮球队里唯一一个吉库尤族队员，可是呢，你从来就没有来看过我打比赛！”

Mr Kibaki, himself a Kikuyu, was expected to have overwhelming support from his kinsmen, but 98% looked excessive.

身为基库尤人的齐贝吉先生期待能从他的老乡们那里得到压倒性的支持，但是98%的支持却过多，不合情理。

The Kikuyu highlands encircling the glaciers of Mount Kenya increasingly feel like a state within a state.

环绕肯尼亚山冰河的基库尤高地看起来越来越像是一个国中之国。

Pitches planted with locally grown kikuyu grass will have to be dug up and replanted with lush European rye grass.

用本土生长的基库尤草铺就的草皮将被连根拔起，换上郁郁葱葱的欧洲种的黑麦草皮。

Why, for instance, were votes from the president's loyal Kikuyu highlands of central Kenya held back to the end of the counting?

比如说，总统在肯尼亚中部拥有的忠诚的基库尤高地人的选票到记票的最后一刻突然到来，何故？

And it was among the Kikuyu that Ngai waged His final battle against the god of the Europeans.

下来，就是在吉库尤人中恩迦开始了同欧洲人的神明的最终之战。

In other parts of the country, especially in the Kikuyu heartlands, Mr Kibaki's backers have treated Luos with similar harshness.

在肯尼亚其它地区，特别是在基库尤民族的中心地带，齐贝吉总统的支持者对卢奥人也采取了同样的残暴措施。

Language: English and Swahili are the official language. Kikuyu, Somali and Luo are also widely spoken.

语言：英语和斯瓦希里语为官方语言。吉库尤语、索马里语和卢奥语也通用。

"A Kikuyu cannot follow a Kikuyu as president of this country" , says a former minister, himself a Kikuyu.

“一个奇库尤人不会死心塌地地跟随一位奇库尤总统”，一位国家前部长讲道，他自己就是一个奇库尤人。

"We're civilised and they are not, " says a Kikuyu mini-bus driver in the market-place, to applause from his friends.

“我们是文明的民族，而他们不是，”市场里一位小巴士司机讲道。

In stealing the election, Mr Kibaki has also invited a dangerous backlash against his Kikuyu tribe, the country's largest.

在窃取选举成果的同时，齐贝吉先生也给他所在的全国最大的部族--基库尤族带来了危险的集体反对。

But Kenyans say members of the Kikuyu tribe have recently begun fighting back.

但是肯尼亚人说，基库尤部落族的人最近开始反击。

We shall live as the Kikuyu were meant to live.

我们要按照吉库尤人本应该生活的方式，去生活。

have been Most of the victims have been Kikuyu .

多数的受害者都是基库尤人。

Unsurprisingly, the Kikuyu view is different.

不足为奇的是，基库尤人对此有不同的见解。

And they may well find Mr Odinga, who has put out the hand of friendship to many Kikuyu, tolerable.

而他们也许还可以发现，向奇库尤族人伸出友谊之手的奥丁加先生还算不错。

Some 97% of Kikuyu voted for Mr Kibaki. Everywhere else he was trounced .

约97%的基库尤人民将投票给了齐贝吉，但他在其它地区却遭到挫败。

Every Kikuyu business and home has been looted and burned.

每一个基库尤人的生意与家童都被抢劫一空并被焚烧。

The story titled as Why the Kikuyu men and women Love Mount Kenya.

故事题为和为什么Kikuyu人工和妇女爱登上肯尼亚。

"They are Kikuyu! " he insisted.

“他们就是吉库尤人！”他还在坚持。

Mr Muthaura is a Meru, a group closely related to the Kikuyu.

Muthaura先生的族群也是与基库尤人相关的一支。

In mainly Kikuyu towns such as Thika, Luos working in government offices have fled.

在诸如Thika的主要基库尤城镇，在政府工作的卢奥人都已经逃走了。