damascene

常见例句

“We have become citizens, when once we were sheep,” says a middle-class Damascene.
一名大马士革的中产阶级居民说：“过去我们是绵羊，现在我们才变成了公民。”
Damascene dealers boast what they describe as the most interesting collection of antique carpets and rugs this side of Persia.
大马士革的商人有着他们所说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.
英国社会并没有经历大马士革式的转变，相反，它历经了极度混乱、争论、自我剖析和自我欺骗的时期而幸存下来。

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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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