(noun.) a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland; 'in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states'.
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Then Prussia declared war in support of Austria, and the allied forces, under the Duke of Brunswick, prepared to invade France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Roebling, a native of Prussia, born there in 1806, and who died in New York in 1869. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
By 1810 a new Prussia existed, the nucleus of a new Germany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
At Schladebach, in Prussia, there is one nearly a mile deep. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
We begin to read less and less of the schemes and ambitions of King This or That, and more of the Designs of France or the Ambitions of Prussia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
But the amount of potash thus obtained is far too limited to supply the needs of agriculture; and to-day the main sources of potash are the vast deposits of potassium salts found in Prussia. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
About 1841 the celebrated Needle Gun was invented in Prussia, and its superiority over all muzzle-loaders was demonstrated in 1848 in the first Schleswig-Holstein war. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I have not seen the King of Prussia's posthumous works; what you mention makes me desirous to have them. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
For though it was a united Germany that had overcome French imperialism, it had Prussia in the saddle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Unlike its three neighbours, Prussia, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs, Poland had not developed a Grand Monarchy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In the present times, if you except the king of Prussia, to accumulate treasure seems to be no part of the policy of European princes. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Four years later came the next step towards the natural political map of Europe, when Napoleon III plunged into war against Prussia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It brooded upon the _Revanche_, the return match with Prussia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He tried to strike down his neighbor, Prussia--and fell. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
It may have been a weakness, but if so, it was equally the weakness, I believe, of King Frederick of Prussia. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.