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杜勒斯

Dùlèsī
proper noun #30,216

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 4
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.
HSK 7-9
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.

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

Stroke Order

杜 dù
勒 lè
斯 sī