Meaning of Pa-tung | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district.”

“One side of the gully (ch'i) belongs to Pa-tung, the other to Wu-shan.”

“When we got to Pa-tung, we found out that all the steamships have been requisitioned to transport ammunition and troops. Germany has surrendered to the Allies and the Japanese are desperately fighting for their lives.”

“The modesty of the outpost he visited in Pa-tung was offset by a sub-prefectural residence of incomparable beauty, where an unambitious official, willing to make a reality of the literary cult of rural bliss, “could sleep and eat in the pavilion and his pleasure would be boundless.””

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