Columbus
英 [k?'l?mb?s]
美
- n. 哥倫布（美國一座城市）；哥倫布（意大利航海家）
暢通詞匯
英文詞源
- Columbus
- his name is Latinized from his native Italian Cristoforo Colombo, in Spanish Christobal Colon.
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else, and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. [S.E. Morison, "The Oxford History of the United States," 1965]
雙語例句
- 1. Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World in the Santa Maria.
- 克里斯托弗·哥倫布從圣瑪麗亞啟航前往新大陸。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Building a memorial to Columbus has been his lifelong dream.
- 為哥倫布建一座紀念碑是他一生的夢想。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. the quincentenary of Columbus's voyage to America
- 哥倫布航海到達美洲的500周年紀念日
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
- 哥倫布豎蛋這個真偽不明的故事十分有趣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Columbus had not realised that this new land was not India.
- 哥倫布當時還沒有認識到這塊新大陸不是印度.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》