英汉词典

America 基本解释

• n. 美洲（包括北美和南美洲）；美国

America 中文词源

来自意大利探险家Amerigo Vespucci 的名字。

America 英文词源

America

1507, in Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller's treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio," from Modern Latin Americanus, after Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) who made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it. His published works put forward the idea that it was a new continent, and he was first to call it Novus Mundus "New World." Amerigo is more easily Latinized than Vespucci.

The name Amerigo is Germanic, said to derive from Gothic Amalrich, literally "work-ruler." The Old English form of the name has come down as surnames Emmerich, Emery, etc. The Italian fem. form merged into Amelia.

Colloquial pronunciation "Ameri-kay," not uncommon 19c., goes back to at least 1643 and a poem that rhymed the word with away. Amerika "U.S. society viewed as racist, fascist, oppressive, etc." first attested 1969; the spelling is German, but may also suggest the KKK.

It is interesting to remember that the song which is essentially Southern -- "Dixie" -- and that which is essentially Northern -- "Yankee Doodle" -- never really had any serious words to them. ["The Bookman," June 1910]

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FREDONIA, FREDONIAN, FREDE, FREDISH, &c. &c.
These extraordinary words, which have been deservedly ridiculed here as well as in England, were proposed sometime ago, and countenanced by two or three individuals, as names for the territory and people of the United States. The general term American is now commonly understood (at least in all places where the English language is spoken,) to mean an inhabitant of the United States; and is so employed, except where unusual precision of language is required. [Pickering, 1816]

America 英文释义

1. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

2. North and South America

America 双语例句

1. He's touring South America at this moment in time.

他此刻正在南美旅游观光。

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2. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.

美国在该地区拥有足够的火力发动持续的空中打击。

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3. America imports about 190 million pounds of tea a year.

美国每年进口大约1.9亿磅茶叶。

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4. You lived on the farm until you came back to America?

你回美国之前一直生活在农场吗？

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5. Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America.

福特从未停止过劝说他返回美国。

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America 实用场景例句

He's touring South America at this moment in time.

他此刻正在南美旅游观光。

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I scrolled down to find "United States of America".

我向下滚动文档搜索“美利坚合众国”。

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They fled to South America around the turn of the century.

他们在世纪之交逃到了南美洲。

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We dowse oil and ore in South America for big companies.

我们在南美洲为一些大公司探测石油和矿石。

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Latin America lacked skilled labour.

拉丁美洲缺乏熟练工人。

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the animals and birds of South America

南美的鸟兽

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For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America.

她在北美游牧民中生活了十年。

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the quincentenary of Columbus's voyage to America

哥伦布航海到达美洲的500周年纪念日

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the United States of America

美利坚合众国

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North America is connected with South America by the Isthmus of Panama.

巴拿马海峡把北美同南美连接起来.

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They came to America in order to escape political tyranny.

他们为逃避暴政而来到美洲.

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South America is joined to North America by a canal.

南美洲和北美洲由一条运河连在一起.

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He was discovered living under an assumed identity in South America.

他被发现以伪造的身分居住在南美洲.

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Over drinks , he speaks longingly of his trip to Latin America.

他带着留恋的心情, 一边喝酒一边叙述他的拉丁美洲之行.

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What part of South America did she come from?

她出生在南美洲的哪个地方?

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