Iwo Jima

短语

硫磺岛（位于北太平洋日本以南）

发音

US

别名

Iwojima Io Jima Iōtō Iō Jima

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A volcanic island in the Volcano Islands in the North Pacific, now administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture and most famous for a major battle in World War II.

  2. 2.

    A volcanic island in the Satsunan Islands in the Philippine Sea, administered as part of Kagoshima.

词源

From the early modern Japanese misreading Iwōjima for 硫黄島 (Iwōtō, “Sulfur Island”), a calque of English Sulphur Island in accounts of James Cook's voyages, possibly originally from Early Modern Spanish Isla Sufre although the island was left unnamed by its first known discoverer Bernardo de la Torre.

来源：wiktionary