名詞 cyprus:

1. a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin
   同義詞：Republic of Cyprus
2. an island in the eastern Mediterranean

1. All right, clever dick, what's the capital of Cyprus?
   好，聰明的人，塞浦路斯的首都叫什么？
2. Cyprus, as you know, is an island in the Mediterranean.
   如你所知，塞浦路斯是地中海的島國(guó)。

Cy.prus

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An island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea south of Turkey. Site of an ancient Neolithic culture, the island was settled by Phoenicians c. 800b.c. and thereafter fell successively to the Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Macedonian Greeks, Egyptians again, and finally Romans (58 b.c. ) The Byzantines controlled it from a.d. 395 until 9, when it was captured by Richard I of England during the Third Crusade. Venice annexed it in 489, Turkey conquered it in 57, and Great Britain proclaimed its sovereignty in 94. Cyprus became independent in 9'0. Nicosia is the capital and the largest city. Population, '42,73.
塞浦路斯：地中海東部的一個(gè)島國(guó)，位于土耳其以南。古代新石器文化的遺址，公元前 800年腓尼基人在此定居，后來相繼被亞述人、埃及人、波斯人、馬其頓希臘人，又是埃及人最后是羅馬人(58 公元前 )占領(lǐng)，拜占庭從 公元 395年到9年統(tǒng)治該地，并在第三次十字軍東征時(shí)被英格蘭理查德一世占領(lǐng)，489年被威尼斯兼并，57年被土耳其征服，94年大不列顛宣布擁有其統(tǒng)治權(quán)。9'0年塞浦路斯獨(dú)立。尼科西亞是其首都和最大的城市，人口'42,73