A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes and even render it mortal, as in the Black Hole at Calcutta. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In the mint of Calcutta, an ounce of fine gold is supposed to be worth fifteen ounces of fine silver, in the same manner as in Europe. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Scape, ruined, honest, and broken-hearted at sixty-five years of age, went out to Calcutta to wind up the affairs of the house. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
It was the Black Hole of Calcutta on a small scale. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The idea of it grew in the mind of young Colt when he left his father’s silk mill and shipped as a boy sailor in the ship Carlo, bound from Boston to Calcutta. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
What goods could bear the expense of land-carriage between London and Calcutta? 亚当·斯密.国富论.