名詞 calcutta:

1. the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding
   同義詞：Kolkata

1. "What is it like down there?" shouted Marvin from the upper cave. "Like the Black Hole of Calcutta, but a lot wetter, " came the reply.
   "下面怎么樣？"馬文在洞穴上方喊道。"像加爾各答城的小地牢，又悶又熱，不過要潮濕得多。"下面回答道。
2. The plane didn't land in Calcutta, did it?
   飛機(jī)不在加爾各答降落，是嗎？

Cal.cut.ta

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A city of eastern India on the Hooghly River in the Ganges delta. Founded c. '90 as a British East India Company trading post, it is India`s largest city and a major port and industrial center. In the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta more than 20 British soldiers died of suffocation (75') after being imprisoned overnight in the small, stifling dungeon by the nawab of Bengal. Population, 3,305,00'.
加爾各答：印度東部的一座城市，位于恒河三角洲上的胡格利河畔。于公元'90年作為英國東印度公司的商貿(mào)據(jù)點(diǎn)而建成，是印度最大的城市，主要的港口和工業(yè)中心。在臭名昭著的.加爾各答黑洞.中，20名英國士兵被整夜囚禁在狹小憋悶的地牢里然后窒息而死（75'）。人口3,305,00'