Mount Erebus

短语

埃里伯斯火山

别名

Erebus

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A volcano in Ross Island, Ross Dependency, Antarctica; known for being the southernmost active volcano.

    埃里伯斯火山

  2. 2.

    A mountain in Alberta, Canada.

词源

By surface analysis, mount + Erebus. From Latin Erebus (“Greek personification of darkness”) and Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος / ἔρεβος (Érebos / érebos, “personification of darkness; darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos (“darkness”), and Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷ- (“to be dark”). * (sense 1): Coined by British explorer and naval officer James Clark Ross in 1841 after his ship, the HMS Erebus. * (sense 2): Coined by Canadian park ranger Morrison Parsons Bridgland in 1916 after the dark coloration of the mountain.

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