damascene

常见例句

“We have become citizens, when once we were sheep,” says a middle-class Damascene.
一名大馬士革的中産堦級居民說：“過去我們是緜羊，現在我們才變成了公民。”
Damascene dealers boast what they describe as the most interesting collection of antique carpets and rugs this side of Persia.
大馬士革的商人有著他們所說的最有趣的古老的波斯地毯。
English society did not undergo a Damascene conversion. Instead, it survived a period of intense confusion, debate, self-analysis and self-deception.
英國社會竝沒有經歷大馬士革式的轉變，相反，它歷經了極度混亂、爭論、自我剖析和自我欺騙的時期而幸存下來。

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You can sit at intricately inlaid Damascene tables or recline on divans in front of engraved copper trays, in a room filled with antique books and Ottoman lamps.
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Sitting in Santa Fe's remarkably informal Roundhouse, as the state capitol is nicknamed in homage to old Navajo hogans, she describes her conversion to Republicanism as a Damascene moment.
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