archipelago: [16] Originally, archipelago was a quite specific term – it was the name of the Aegean Sea, the sea between Greece and Turkey. Derivationally, it is a compound formed in Greek from arkhi- ‘chief’ and pélagos ‘sea’ (source of English pelagic [17] and probably related to plain, placate, and please). The term ‘chief sea’ identified the Aegean, as contrasted with all the smaller lagoons, lakes, and inlets to which the word pélagos was also applied.
An ‘Englished’ form of the word, Arch-sea, was in use in the 17th century, and in sailors’ jargon it was often abbreviated to Arches: ‘An island called Augusto near Paros, in the Arches’, Sir T Roe, Negotiations 1626. A leading characteristic of the Aegean Sea is of course that it contains a large number of islands, and from the 16th century onwards we see a strong and steady move towards what is now the word’s main meaning, ‘large group of islands’.
The immediate source of the English word was Italian arcipelago, and some etymologists have speculated that rather than coming directly from Greek arkhipélagos, this may have been a sort of folk-etymological resuscitation of it based on a misunderstanding of Greek Aigaion pelagos ‘Aegean Sea’. => pelagic
archipelago (n.)
c. 1500, from Italian arcipelago "the Aegean Sea" (13c.), from Greek arkhipelagos, from arkhi- "chief" (see archon) + pelagos "sea" (see pelagic). The Aegean Sea being full of island chains, the meaning was extended in Italian to "any sea studded with islands." Klein, noting the absence of arkhipelagos in ancient or Medieval Greek (the modern word in Greek is borrowed from Italian) believe it is an Italian mistake for Aigaion pelagos "Aegean Sea" (Medieval Latin Egeopelagus), or influenced by that name.
archipelago 英文释义
1. a group of many islands in a large body of water
archipelago 双语例句
1. And he spent his senility on an archipelago, far away from here.
当他年老的时候他住在了一个群岛上, 远离这里.
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2. The project is planned for Balta, one of the archipelago's main islands.
计划此项目将建在群岛的主岛之一的巴尔塔岛上.
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3. The rich life of Svalbard, Norway's Arctic archipelago, faces a creeping thaw.
生物资源丰富的斯瓦尔巴德群岛, 挪威的北极群岛, 面临逐渐解冻的危机.
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4. Koh Larn ( Coral Island ) is the largest of Pattaya's archipelago.
琅岛 ( 珊瑚岛 ) 是芭缇雅群岛中最大的一个岛屿.
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5. A numerical study on the floristics of the Zhoushan Archipelago.
舟山群岛植物区系地理的数值研究.
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archipelago 实用场景例句
...the Azores, a rugged, volcanic archipelago of nine islands.
亚速尔群岛，由9个小岛组成的多岩石的火山群岛
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The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas Lynn Pan ( General Editor ) , Archipelago Press Landmark Books , Singapore.
《华人华侨百科全书》,周南京, 中国华侨出版社.
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The rich life of Svalbard, Norway's Arctic archipelago, faces a creeping thaw.
生物资源丰富的斯瓦尔巴德群岛, 挪威的北极群岛, 面临逐渐解冻的危机.
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Copperfield insists his archipelago also contains the legendary waters that bestow perpetual youth.
科波菲尔坚称,他的群岛上有那种可以让人青春永驻的传说中的“不老泉”.
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A splIt'shot shows a coral reef beneath a pearl workstation in French Polynesia's Tuamotu Archipelago.
该图片显示的是在法属波利尼西亚,一处珍珠养殖场水下的珊瑚.
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Koh Larn ( Coral Island ) is the largest of Pattaya's archipelago.
琅岛 ( 珊瑚岛 ) 是芭缇雅群岛中最大的一个岛屿.
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Seemingly fearless, butterfly fish in the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia swim around a coral reef.
鱼的学校图片.看上去无所畏惧, 蝴蝶鱼在土阿莫土群岛法属波利尼西亚游泳围绕一个珊瑚礁.
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A scorpion fish attempts to hide in the sand in French Polynesia's Tuamotu Archipelago.
在波利尼西亚土阿莫土群岛生活的天蝎鱼把自己隐藏在沙子内.
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It is under investigation at Port Blair , the main administrative center of the archipelago.
该船现在破布莱尔港接受调查, 此港是整个离岛的中心.
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It is produced archipelago is pulled in Portuguese Ma De, belong to rosaceous arbor.
它产在葡萄牙的马地拉群岛, 属蔷薇科的乔木.
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Further problem is, why is is archipelago registered and Alibaba can choose register in home?
进一步的问题是, 阿里巴巴为什么会选择开曼群岛注册而不是在国内注册?
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A numerical study on the floristics of the Zhoushan Archipelago.
舟山群岛植物区系地理的数值研究.
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It was only the fourth time Tokyo archipelago in opening the cherry blossom season.
这是东京第四次举行樱花盛开典礼.
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You moor yourselves in the small archipelago, where you will begin to be developed.
你被困居在一个小岛国上, 这里是你扩张的起点.
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Later, at Rangiroa Atoll , part of the Tuamotu Archipelago, the sharks knew we were coming.
之后, 到土阿莫图群岛中的朗伊罗环礁时, 鲨鱼知道我们会来.
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Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world.
印尼是世界上最大的群岛.
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Arrives islands successively and so on Bahamian archipelago, Cuba, Haiti, Dominica, Trinidad.
先后到达巴哈马群岛 、 古巴 、 海地 、 多米尼加 、 特立尼达等岛.
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Saba Douglas Hamilton joins arctic expert Jason Roberts in the remote Svalbard Archipelago to find out.
北极居民之一的北极熊的身体构造有赖严寒天气才能正常地生活,温室效应对它们造成什麽影响?
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The archipelago continues for another 500 miles.
这个群岛又绵延了500英里.
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The Quirimbas Archipelago is home to 32 pristine the Ocean along Mozambique's northern coast.
基林巴群岛是印度洋莫桑比克北海岸32个原始珊瑚岛的发祥地.
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Neville: but there are about 24,000 islands in the Stockholm archipelago.
奈维尔: 但大约有二万四千个岛在斯德哥尔摩群岛.
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It abuts the Tropic of Cancer, constituted the Polynesia archipelago north vanguard.
它紧靠北回归线, 构成了波利尼西亚群岛的北方前锋.
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A Yemeni airliner with about 150 has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago.
一架载有150名乘客的也门飞机在印度洋科摩罗斯群岛附近坠毁.
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That happened when Big Board combined with the electronic trading exchange Archipelago Holdings.
这是发生在当纽约证交所与电子交易商——群岛控股公司合并后.
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At the southernmost end of the Japanese archipelago, the en tire prefecture lies in the subtropics.
它位于日本群岛的最南端, 整个县处于亚热带气候区域.
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We cannot be an extension of China, India, the West, or the Malay Archipelago.
我们不能成为中国 、 印度 、 西方国家或者马来群岛的伸延部分.
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And he spent his senility on an archipelago, far away from here.
当他年老的时候他住在了一个群岛上, 远离这里.
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Putuo Mountain lies to the east of Zhoushan Archipelago.
