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单词 Hexi Corridor
释义

Hexi Corridor

English

Alternative forms

  • (from Wade–Giles) Ho-hsi Corridor

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin and from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng).

Proper noun

Hexi Corridor

  1. (historical) Part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River. Consisting of a string of oases, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military.
    Synonym: Hexi
    • [1964, Jen, Yu-ti (任育地), A Concise Geography of China (中国地理概述), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, OCLC 799178199, page 195:
      The Hohsi Corridor is long, narrow and easily passable. Over 1,000 kilometres in length, it is bordered on the south by the Chilien Mountains and on the north by the broken, slightly lower Peishan Mountains. It is penetrated by the rolling sand from Inner Mongolia. The corridor, though an arid area, is constantly watered by the melting snow and ice from the Chiliens. The irrigation system here goes back 2,000 years, when agriculture was originally developed on the oases on which most of the towns and villages have since arisen.]
    • 1993 August, Wang, Miao; Shi Bao Xiu, “A Detour Through the Desert to Etzina”, in Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, OCLC 966025328, page 94, column 1:
      When we were in Zhangye we consulted a map and saw that the Ruoshui River has its source in the Qilian Mountains, then winds north through the Hexi Corridor and into the desert. It then flows through the forests of Ejin Banner and pours into two lakes — the Gaxun Nur and the Sogo Nur.
    • 2003, Geology and Health: Closing the Gap, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2002032955, OCLC 488886994, OL 7390605M, page 17:
      Dust-fall sampling along the Hexi Corridor shows that while it is traditionally believed that dust storm activity peaks in spring to early summer, the pattern is more complex (Figure 2.2).

Synonyms

  • Kansu Corridor

Translations

Further reading

  • Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hexi Corridor”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1276, column 3
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