English to afrikaans meaning of

Volgens die woordeboek kan "China" na 'n paar verskillende dinge verwys:'n Land in Oos-Asiƫ, amptelik bekend as die Volksrepubliek China, met 'n bevolking van meer as 1,4 miljard mense.Die porselein of ander keramiek wat in China vervaardig word, of skottelgoed wat daarvan gemaak is.'n Fyn wit of deurskynende verglaasde keramiekmateriaal.Daar word geglo dat die woord "China" oorspronklik van die Persiese woord "Chin" kom, wat verwys het na die Qin-dinastie wat in die derde eeu vC in China geheers het.

Sentence Examples

  1. The captain as often as possible put up his sails, and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China.
  2. You were only going to Bombay, and here you are in China.
  3. Several sailors, who were evidently accustomed to this sort of scene, carried the poor Frenchman down into the second cabin, and Passepartout did not wake until they were one hundred and fifty miles away from China.
  4. The brash clang of metal against china made our silence more awkward.
  5. The China, for Liverpool, had started three-quarters of an hour before!
  6. Hong Kong was the last English ground on which he would set foot beyond, China, Japan, America offered to Fogg an almost certain refuge.
  7. If Phileas Fogg had left in the China, one of the fastest steamers on the Atlantic, he would have reached Liverpool, and then London, within the period agreed upon.
  8. The varied landscape afforded by the Andaman Islands was soon passed, however, and the Rangoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas.
  9. to do a piece on a Smithsonian building being refurbished and then on to China.
  10. This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamers, and those carrying travellers between North America, China, Japan, and the Oriental islands put in.