navajo

navajo

美 　英 ['næv?h??]

• n.(美國新墨西哥,亞利桑那,猶他等州的)印第安納瓦霍族人
• 網絡那瓦荷；納瓦霍人；納瓦霍語

詞形變化

復數：Navajos  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. (美國新墨西哥,亞利桑那,猶他等州的)印第安納瓦霍族人;納瓦霍語 2. 橙紅色 3. 〈美〉超音速巡航導[飛]彈;遠距離無線電領航系統

英英解釋

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.

但納瓦霍人的家鄉面臨嚴峻的問題，在那里人們很難找到報酬頗豐的工作，并極其容易染上酗酒的惡習，陷入絕望的境地。

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

Neidhardt說到，他的納瓦霍的病人用他們自己的文化經歷來推斷他的診斷期望值。

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.

老人的留言非常簡短，航天局官員問老人的兒子可否告訴他們老人說了什么，但他拒絕了。

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

某天，一位納瓦伙族老人和他兒子遇見正在巖石間穿行的航空工作人員。

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

他們是納瓦霍人，早在第一批歐洲人到達之前，納瓦霍人的祖先就在一個世紀或者許多個世紀之前到達這里。

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

在美國國家航天局準備阿波羅航天計劃時，他們讓宇航員們去亞利桑那州納瓦伙族保留區進行訓練。

'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“外國”語言，而是一種土著語言：納瓦霍語。

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

游客在亞利桑那州下羚羊峽谷一個狹窄的峽谷里拍下納瓦霍砂巖的照片。

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

即使動身到鹿皮谷步行，納瓦霍砂巖陰森森地圍墻似地懸在頭上。

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

起初我們連接了納瓦霍族的一個地區和西雅圖的一間教室，而現在我們連接了15個地方。

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

曾經，我參加過一次納瓦霍祝福儀式，那時在索諾蘭沙漠上的紅沙地上的一個帳篷中舉行的儀式。

Her mother was Navajo, her fatherwas not.

母親是納瓦霍人，父親不是。

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

我的納瓦霍印第安導游對著那束光扔了一把灰塵，就在這一刻我按動了快門。

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

盡管它被作為許多約翰福特的電影的背景，這個納瓦霍族人的地區是真實的。

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

很多納瓦霍人仍然延續著傳統的風俗，他們住在泥土和圓木結構的房屋里，信奉部落的宗教。

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

納瓦霍人的一首宗教歌曲告訴人們第一所Hogan是如何被狼神建造出來讓人們使用的。

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

在美國西部，屋主們喜歡西南部壁紙地安拿佛和族或是牛仔式的風格。

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

學校從來就反對他們私下講那伐鶴語，在課堂上則更是絕對禁止。

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

她說，基德曼一定從來沒有對她說起過人們對于用納瓦霍語說話的投訴。

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

她生長于亞利桑那州納瓦霍保留區，父母是教師。

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

兩個納瓦霍人引起了美國航空航天局人員的注意，他們來到父子倆跟前。

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

老人問了航天局人員一個問題，但他只會說納瓦伙族語，兒子幫他進行了翻譯。

Corn was a staple of the Navajo Indian Tribe.

玉米是印度納瓦霍族的象徵。

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

納瓦霍民族有它們自己的族長，法律，部落政府以及盡職盡責的警力。

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

密碼語者還選擇了200多個納瓦霍詞語和詞組，表示一些軍用術語。

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

他們的理由是：顧客和員工都抱怨有人用納瓦霍語無禮地評頭論足。

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

例如，有效把例如納瓦霍的語言列入黑名單。

Many Navajo still live in hogans today.

直到今天仍舊有很多納瓦霍人住在Hogan里。

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

盡管有許多學生都在學習該門語言，可是學校卻是用英文授課的。

Libraries: Tools for education and development within the Navajo Nation

圖書館：印第安人奈瓦荷族教育和發展的工具

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該地區不適宜耕種，因此對白人定居者沒有吸引力；