navajo

navajo

美 　英 ['nævəhəʊ]

• n.(美国新墨西哥,亚利桑那,犹他等州的)印第安纳瓦霍族人
• 网络那瓦荷；纳瓦霍人；纳瓦霍语

词形变化

复数：Navajos  

英汉双解

英汉解释

n.	1. (美国新墨西哥,亚利桑那,犹他等州的)印第安纳瓦霍族人;纳瓦霍语 2. 橙红色 3. 〈美〉超音速巡航导[飞]弹;远距离无线电领航系统

英英解释

n.	1. a member of a Native North American people living mainly in northern New Mexico and Arizona 2. the Athabaskan language of the Navajo people.

例句

But the Navajo homeland is harsh country, where it's hard to find good-paying jobs and all too easy to fall sway to alcoholism and despair.

但纳瓦霍人的家乡面临严峻的问题，在那里人们很难找到报酬颇丰的工作，并极其容易染上酗酒的恶习，陷入绝望的境地。

Neidhardt's Navajo patients may extrapolate their expectations of his clinic from their experience in their own cultural system, he said.

Neidhardt说到，他的纳瓦霍的病人用他们自己的文化经历来推断他的诊断期望值。

The Navajo elder's comments were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. But he refused.

老人的留言非常简短，航天局官员问老人的儿子可否告诉他们老人说了什么，但他拒绝了。

One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew, who were walking among the rocks.

某天，一位纳瓦伙族老人和他儿子遇见正在岩石间穿行的航空工作人员。

They are the Navajo whose ancestors walked that land at least a century, perhaps many centuries, before the first Europeans arrived.

他们是纳瓦霍人，早在第一批欧洲人到达之前，纳瓦霍人的祖先就在一个世纪或者许多个世纪之前到达这里。

When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.

在美国国家航天局准备阿波罗航天计划时，他们让宇航员们去亚利桑那州纳瓦伙族保留区进行训练。

's Drive-In in Page, Ariz. , It wasn't a " foreign " language that the boss restricted, but a native one: Navajo.

s的老板限制的不是“外国”语言，而是一种土著语言：纳瓦霍语。

Tourists take pictures, surrounded by the Navajo Sandstone colors, inside the Lower Antelope Canyon slot canyon in Page, Arizona.

游客在亚利桑那州下羚羊峡谷一个狭窄的峡谷里拍下纳瓦霍砂岩的照片。

Even at the start of a hike to Buckskin Gulch, the walls of Navajo sandstone darken overhead.

即使动身到鹿皮谷步行，纳瓦霍砂岩阴森森地围墙似地悬在头上。

So we first hooked up a -- a spot in the Navajo Nation with a classroom in Seattle. We now have 15 sites.

起初我们连接了纳瓦霍族的一个地区和西雅图的一间教室，而现在我们连接了15个地方。

I once attended a Navajo blessing ceremony, held in a tepee on the red sand of the Sonoran desert.

曾经，我参加过一次纳瓦霍祝福仪式，那时在索诺兰沙漠上的红沙地上的一个帐篷中举行的仪式。

Her mother was Navajo, her fatherwas not.

母亲是纳瓦霍人，父亲不是。

At the precise moment I clicked the shutter, my Navajo Indian guide threw a handful of dust into the light.

我的纳瓦霍印第安导游对着那束光扔了一把灰尘，就在这一刻我按动了快门。

But although it's served as the backdrop for many John Ford movies, this corner of the Navajo Nation is for real.

尽管它被作为许多约翰福特的电影的背景，这个纳瓦霍族人的地区是真实的。

Many Navajo still carry on traditional customs, living in earth-and-log structures and practicing the tribal religion.

很多纳瓦霍人仍然延续着传统的风俗，他们住在泥土和圆木结构的房屋里，信奉部落的宗教。

A Navajo religious song tells how the first hogan was built for man by the god Coyote.

纳瓦霍人的一首宗教歌曲告诉人们第一所Hogan是如何被狼神建造出来让人们使用的。

In the western United States, homeowners favor the Navajo Indian style of the Southwest or the cowboy look.

在美国西部，屋主们喜欢西南部壁纸地安拿佛和族或是牛仔式的风格。

Schools have historically discouraged them from speaking privately in Navajo and have forbidden it in the classroom.

学校从来就反对他们私下讲那伐鹤语，在课堂上则更是绝对禁止。

She says the Kidmans never told her there had been complaints about things being said in Navajo.

她说，基德曼一定从来没有对她说起过人们对于用纳瓦霍语说话的投诉。

She grew up on Navajo reservations in Arizona, the daughter of two teachers.

她生长于亚利桑那州纳瓦霍保留区，父母是教师。

The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.

两个纳瓦霍人引起了美国航空航天局人员的注意，他们来到父子俩跟前。

The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people.

老人问了航天局人员一个问题，但他只会说纳瓦伙族语，儿子帮他进行了翻译。

Corn was a staple of the Navajo Indian Tribe.

玉米是印度纳瓦霍族的象徵。

The Navajo Nation has its own elders, laws, tribal government, and police force that is vigilant at enforcing speed limits.

纳瓦霍民族有它们自己的族长，法律，部落政府以及尽职尽责的警力。

The code talkers also chose more than 200 Navajo words and phrases to represent military terms.

密码语者还选择了200多个纳瓦霍词语和词组，表示一些军用术语。

Their reason: There were complaints from customers and staff about rude comments being made in Navajo.

他们的理由是：顾客和员工都抱怨有人用纳瓦霍语无礼地评头论足。

example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list.

例如，有效把例如纳瓦霍的语言列入黑名单。

Many Navajo still live in hogans today.

直到今天仍旧有很多纳瓦霍人住在Hogan里。

Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English.

尽管有许多学生都在学习该门语言，可是学校却是用英文授课的。

Libraries: Tools for education and development within the Navajo Nation

图书馆：印第安人奈瓦荷族教育和发展的工具

What's more, Navajo land was rugged and dry, making it less desirable as farmland for white settlers;

此外，凹凸不平的地形以及干燥的土壤使得该地区不适宜耕种，因此对白人定居者没有吸引力；