词典释义：
尼尼微
Nineveh is like a puddle, and the water inside it is becoming less and less.
尼尼微就像是一个水坑，里面的水越来越少了。
AF: How Nineveh was captured?
我：“那尼尼微是怎么被攻占的？”
He went to Nineveh and gave the people God's message.
他去尼尼微给人们带去上帝的消息。
Jonah lost his time, for he had to go to Nineveh after all.
最后，约拿因要往他施去而浪费了时间。
Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
这尼尼微是极大的城，有三日的路程。
尼尼微（Nineveh），西亚古城，是早期亚述、中期亚述的重镇和亚述帝国都城，最早由古代胡里特人建立，其址位于现在伊拉克的北部尼尼微省，底格里斯河的东岸，隔河与今天的摩苏尔城相望，意为“上帝面前最伟大的城市”。《圣经》中曾提到尼尼微城名：“耶和华必伸手攻击北方，毁灭亚述，使尼尼微荒芜，干旱如旷野。” 曾经在《圣经》中出现过的名城尼尼微却在很长时间里消失在美索不达米亚的历史烟尘中。许多探险者千辛万苦寻找它的踪迹，但直到1842年这座古亚述王国的首都才终于得以现身。
an ancient city located on the east bank of the Tigris, opposite the modern city of Mosul. It was the oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital until it was destroyed by a coalition of Babylonians and Medes in 612 BC.
尼尼微（坐落于底格里斯河东岸的一座古城，位于今摩苏尔市的对面，是古代亚述国最古老的城市及其首都，公元前６１２年被巴比伦人和米堤亚人的联军摧毁）。
