Asia

(noun.) the nations of the Asian continent collectively.

(noun.) the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations.

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• It passed by Armenia to Asia Minor, Egypt, and North Africa. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• While Alexander was overrunning Western Asia, China, under the last priest-emperors of the Chow Dynasty, was sinking into a state of great disorder. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The inclusion of India raised logical claims for French Africa and French Asia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Of course these peoples out of Asia were totally illiterate and artistically undeveloped. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The barriers between Europe and Asia set up by the religious feud of Christianity and Islam were lowered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is said to be a common practice in Turkey, in Indostan, and, I believe, in most other governments of Asia. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Nomadism from Central Asia dominated the known world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Such was the tale sent us from Asia, from the eastern extremity of Europe, and from Africa as far west as the Golden Coast. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Sargon of Akkad, who founded the first Semitic empire in Asia (3800 B.., was brought up by an irrigator, and was himself a gardener. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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