杜勒斯 (Dùlèsī): Dulles (surname); most famously…

Meanings

1 Dulles (surname); most famously John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), US Secretary of State under Eisenhower; also the name of Washington Dulles International Airport

Characters

杜

to rein in; to compel

斯

sī

this (literary); transliteration syllable

Examples

约翰·福斯特·杜勒斯是冷战时期美国国务卿。

Yuēhàn Fúsītè Dùlèsī shì Lěngzhàn shíqī Měiguó guówùqīng.

John Foster Dulles was US Secretary of State during the Cold War.

我们从杜勒斯国际机场起飞。

Wǒmen cóng Dùlèsī guójì jīchǎng qǐfēi.

We took off from Dulles International Airport.

Tips

history

约翰·福斯特·杜勒斯 (John Foster Dulles, 1888-1959) was Eisenhower's hardline Secretary of State, architect of the "brinkmanship" doctrine and the SEATO alliance — a major adversary of the PRC during the Korean War and Taiwan Strait crises. Washington's main international airport bears his name.

memory

Transliteration: 杜 (dù) ≈ "Du-", 勒 (lè) ≈ "-l-", 斯 (sī) ≈ "-s". The same character set appears in many surname transliterations ending in -lles or -les.