Bengal
noun uk/ˌbeŋˈɡɔːl/ us/ˌbeŋˈɡɑːl/
孟加拉（位于亚洲）
a region in South Asia, which was divided in 1947 into West Bengal, which is a state of India, and East Bengal, which is now Bangladesh
The writer describes her childhood in Bengal. 这位作家描述了她在孟加拉的童年。
The monsoon season had passed and the plains of Bengal were dry. 季风季节已过，孟加拉的平原很干燥。
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- He was born in Liverpool in 1912, but his father's work took the family to Bengal.
- Millions of Indians living in Punjab and Bengal suffered horribly because of partition.
- He had written a history of pre-colonial Bengal.