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单词 Sioux
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Definition of Sioux in English:

Sioux

nounsuːsu
  • another term for the Dakota people of North America or their language. See Dakota
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His family settled there in the 1880s about a decade after the Sioux beat Custer.
    • The Sioux understandably resented the invasion of their territory, and the United States Army made largely ineffectual efforts to deter the horde of gold seekers.
    • North Dakota's mascot, by the way, is the fighting Sioux.
    • The Wasase is a ceremony that we adopted from the Sioux more than 200 years ago.
    • I don't know if Congress included representatives of the Sioux in their deliberations when the legislation was discussed.
    • As Wakefield learned firsthand, the Sioux's patience was not without limits.
    • The Sioux ruled an enormous grassland empire, from Canada to Missouri, from Minnesota to Montana.
    • Back at the village, O'Meara comes to the realization that he is not really a Sioux.
    • Certain kinds of actions by the tribal council, however, are subject to the authority of the secretary of the interior of the U.S. government, a reminder that the Sioux are not alone in their land.
    • Before long the Sioux, who can't speak English, let alone French, finds himself fighting for survival on the streets of Marseille.
    • The Sioux must now get permission from the National Park Service to go onto their own sacred land, officially known as Devils Tower National Monument.
    • Early in the battle, the advancing Sioux stampeded their horses.
    • Although suffering from hunger because of a prolonged drought and government cutbacks in their rations, the Sioux were not taking up arms.
    • Friendly Sioux camped nearby hailed the boat as it landed and took hold of the docking ropes, demanding that the vessel's captain treat them to presents.
    • Custer reasoned that dragging the guns and ammunition over mountain trails would have decreased his speed and ruined his chances of finding the elusive Sioux.
    • The Crows sprang to the attack, swarming over the embattled Sioux who had no time to reload their weapons.
    • The Santee's culture was not only disrupted, the Sioux gradually found themselves dependent on trade goods, which made them easy prey for the white merchants.
    • This mine, which has been in nearly continual operation since the Sioux were driven out of the mountains, has generated more than a billion dollars in revenue.
    • Who shall blame the Sioux for defending themselves, their wives and children, when attacked in their own encampment and threatened with destruction?
    • The forest Sioux of northern Minnesota were already on the retreat before the first white men came in 1660.
adjectivesuːsu
  • Relating to the Sioux or their language.

    (与)苏人(有关)的;(与)苏语(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The tail of nearly every Sioux horse is tied with a strip of red stroud cloth as a sign of war.
    • In 1994, Miracle the White Buffalo, a sacred figure of Sioux prophecy and a symbol of hope, renewal and harmony, was born at a family farm in Janesville.
    • O'Meara heads west, into Sioux territory, where he meets an elderly Indian scout named Walking Coyote, who is returning to his tribe so he can die in peace.
    • I am very pleased to have experienced the month that I spent with the Sioux Indians in South Dakota.
    • At various times the boy has told us that he ran away from school to join a carnival, was descended from Sioux Indians, was an orphan and had been a hobo.
    • Puberty is often accompanied by fasting, as for example among Sioux boys and some Africans, while Orthodox Jews fast before the marriage ceremony.
    • Minnehaha, while widely reported to mean ‘laughing waters’ in the Sioux language, actually means ‘falling waters.’
    • After the war General Custer and the 7th Cavalry were sent to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, the most remote part of Sioux reservation.
    • Ojibwa and Sioux fighting extended over a 100-year period until separate reservations were established.
    • In historical fact, Black Elk spent his adult life as a devoutly Catholic evangelist and catechist among the Lakota Sioux Indians.
    • American Indian of Sioux tribe, Billy Mills, won a race for the first time in his life.
    • Smith connects Sioux history with other Plains Indians' experience.
    • I am a Lakota Indian from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation.
    • Yesterday, President Runningbear began talks with Apache and Sioux tribes in an effort to persuade other Native American nations to join the cause.
    • The presentation demonstrated that Sioux migrants tended to move to Chicago in family groups while Chippewa people were younger, single, and more often female.
    • Like every Sioux child, Bad Heart Bull grew up hearing and drawing the stories told by his father and uncles.
    • The bride's father is named as ‘Little Chief’ of the Ogallala band of Sioux Indians.
    • He then left the world of allopathic medicine entirely, to go off to an Indian reservation in South Dakota to study with a Sioux medicine man and learn about herbal medicine and ritual healing.
    • Sayers is enrolled in a Sioux tribe in South Dakota that has no influence with the Minnesota tribe.
    • Frazier's unsentimental portrait of Sioux culture also exposes the confines of his own Caucasian world.

Origin

North American French, from Nadouessioux from Ojibwa (Ottawa dialect) nātowēssiwak, by substitution of the French plural ending -x for the Ojibwa plural -ak.

Rhymes

accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo

Definition of Sioux in US English:

Sioux

nounsuso͞o
  • another term for the Dakota people or their language. See Dakota
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Friendly Sioux camped nearby hailed the boat as it landed and took hold of the docking ropes, demanding that the vessel's captain treat them to presents.
    • His family settled there in the 1880s about a decade after the Sioux beat Custer.
    • Back at the village, O'Meara comes to the realization that he is not really a Sioux.
    • The forest Sioux of northern Minnesota were already on the retreat before the first white men came in 1660.
    • The Sioux must now get permission from the National Park Service to go onto their own sacred land, officially known as Devils Tower National Monument.
    • North Dakota's mascot, by the way, is the fighting Sioux.
    • The Crows sprang to the attack, swarming over the embattled Sioux who had no time to reload their weapons.
    • As Wakefield learned firsthand, the Sioux's patience was not without limits.
    • Certain kinds of actions by the tribal council, however, are subject to the authority of the secretary of the interior of the U.S. government, a reminder that the Sioux are not alone in their land.
    • Early in the battle, the advancing Sioux stampeded their horses.
    • Custer reasoned that dragging the guns and ammunition over mountain trails would have decreased his speed and ruined his chances of finding the elusive Sioux.
    • The Santee's culture was not only disrupted, the Sioux gradually found themselves dependent on trade goods, which made them easy prey for the white merchants.
    • The Sioux ruled an enormous grassland empire, from Canada to Missouri, from Minnesota to Montana.
    • The Wasase is a ceremony that we adopted from the Sioux more than 200 years ago.
    • The Sioux understandably resented the invasion of their territory, and the United States Army made largely ineffectual efforts to deter the horde of gold seekers.
    • I don't know if Congress included representatives of the Sioux in their deliberations when the legislation was discussed.
    • Before long the Sioux, who can't speak English, let alone French, finds himself fighting for survival on the streets of Marseille.
    • Who shall blame the Sioux for defending themselves, their wives and children, when attacked in their own encampment and threatened with destruction?
    • This mine, which has been in nearly continual operation since the Sioux were driven out of the mountains, has generated more than a billion dollars in revenue.
    • Although suffering from hunger because of a prolonged drought and government cutbacks in their rations, the Sioux were not taking up arms.
adjectivesuso͞o
  • Relating to the Sioux or their language.

    (与)苏人(有关)的;(与)苏语(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • American Indian of Sioux tribe, Billy Mills, won a race for the first time in his life.
    • Frazier's unsentimental portrait of Sioux culture also exposes the confines of his own Caucasian world.
    • Sayers is enrolled in a Sioux tribe in South Dakota that has no influence with the Minnesota tribe.
    • After the war General Custer and the 7th Cavalry were sent to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, the most remote part of Sioux reservation.
    • The bride's father is named as ‘Little Chief’ of the Ogallala band of Sioux Indians.
    • Yesterday, President Runningbear began talks with Apache and Sioux tribes in an effort to persuade other Native American nations to join the cause.
    • Smith connects Sioux history with other Plains Indians' experience.
    • In historical fact, Black Elk spent his adult life as a devoutly Catholic evangelist and catechist among the Lakota Sioux Indians.
    • Minnehaha, while widely reported to mean ‘laughing waters’ in the Sioux language, actually means ‘falling waters.’
    • Ojibwa and Sioux fighting extended over a 100-year period until separate reservations were established.
    • In 1994, Miracle the White Buffalo, a sacred figure of Sioux prophecy and a symbol of hope, renewal and harmony, was born at a family farm in Janesville.
    • The presentation demonstrated that Sioux migrants tended to move to Chicago in family groups while Chippewa people were younger, single, and more often female.
    • Like every Sioux child, Bad Heart Bull grew up hearing and drawing the stories told by his father and uncles.
    • Puberty is often accompanied by fasting, as for example among Sioux boys and some Africans, while Orthodox Jews fast before the marriage ceremony.
    • I am very pleased to have experienced the month that I spent with the Sioux Indians in South Dakota.
    • O'Meara heads west, into Sioux territory, where he meets an elderly Indian scout named Walking Coyote, who is returning to his tribe so he can die in peace.
    • I am a Lakota Indian from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation.
    • At various times the boy has told us that he ran away from school to join a carnival, was descended from Sioux Indians, was an orphan and had been a hobo.
    • He then left the world of allopathic medicine entirely, to go off to an Indian reservation in South Dakota to study with a Sioux medicine man and learn about herbal medicine and ritual healing.
    • The tail of nearly every Sioux horse is tied with a strip of red stroud cloth as a sign of war.

Origin

North American French, from Nadouessioux from Ojibwa (Ottawa dialect) nātowēssiwak, by substitution of the French plural ending -x for the Ojibwa plural -ak.

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