New Zealand
短语新西兰
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词形变化
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教材释义与例句
新西兰
纽西兰;奥克兰;区新西兰
释义与例句
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1.
A rabbit of a breed that originated in California from rabbits imported from New Zealand.
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A country and archipelago of Oceania, to the east of Australia. Official name: New Zealand. Capital: Wellington.
纽西兰
新西兰
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2.
The Realm of New Zealand, including the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency.
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A western suburb of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3336).
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A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0177).
词源
Partial calque of Dutch Nieuw-Zeeland (“new Zeeland”), nieuw calqued as new, Zeeland borrowed as the respelling Zealand to parallel the historical exonym, after the Dutch settlement in Batavia, which in turn had been named after the Dutch province of Zeeland, from Middle Dutch Sêelant, equivalent to zee (“sea”) + land (“land”).
来源:wiktionary