Kaaba的音标

Mecca was a pagan city at that time, worshipping in particular a black stone, the Kaaba, of great repute throughout all Arabia, and a centre of pilgrimages;

麦加当时是个异教徒的城市，尤其崇拜一块黑石头&天房，它在整个阿拉伯半岛享有盛誉，是朝圣的中心；

Abercrombie, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 1965, A quarter of a million Muslims press toward the sacred Kaaba, then circle it to praise Allah.

沙特阿拉伯麦加，1965年，托马斯·亚伯克隆比，25万名回教徒走向神圣的“天房”，然后把它围起来赞颂真主阿拉。

This made him extremely unpopular with his fellow townsmen because the pilgrimages to the Kaaba were the chief source of such prosperity as Mecca enjoyed.

这种做法使得他那个小城的市民对他极其反感，因为天房的朝圣者是麦加如此繁荣的主要来源。