Galapagos Islands

短语

加拉巴哥群岛（位于厄瓜多尔西部）

别名

Galápagos Islands Galapagos Galápagos Galapago Islands

释义与例句

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    An archipelago off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, famed for their influence on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

    加拉帕戈斯群岛

    科隆群岛

    加拉巴哥群岛

词源

From Spanish islas Galápagos, first attested as New Latin insulae de los galopegos (“islands of the turtles”) in Abraham Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, from a variant spelling of Spanish galápago (“turtle”), from Paleo-Hispanic. Cf. Catalan calàpet (“toad”) and Portuguese cágado (“turtle”).

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