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Anthony Eden (retouched)
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Walter Stoneman
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Public domain
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Léon Blum, Anthony Eden, 1936
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Agence de presse Meurisse
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Public domain
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Georges Bidault, Anthony Eden and John Foster Dulles (cropped)
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伊登

Yīdēng
proper noun #34,295

Meanings

  1. 1 Eden
  2. 2 most often Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister 1955-1957 of Suez Crisis fame; also a common Anglo-Christian first name

About Anthony Eden

1897–1977 · 政治家 politician

British Conservative statesman, three times foreign secretary, who succeeded Churchill as prime minister in 1955 and resigned in 1957 after the failed Suez invasion.

Also called  安东尼·伊登

Examples

HSK 3
Xīn lái de tóngshì xìng Yīdēng.
The new colleague's surname is Eden.
HSK 6
安东尼·伊登在苏伊士危机中辞职。
Āndōngní Yīdēng zài Sūyīshì wēijī zhōng cízhí.
Anthony Eden resigned during the Suez Crisis.

Tips

usage
Anthony Eden is also written 艾登. Neither form is the biblical Eden, which is 伊甸, with 甸 in place of 登: the Garden of Eden is 伊甸园.
memory
伊 'yī' (literary 'she/that one') is the standard 'i/e' opener for short Western names; 登 'dēng' ('to climb, ascend') maps the '-den' ending.

Stroke Order

伊 yī
登 dēng